The Resistance's work was politically and morally important to France both during the German occupation and decades that followed. The Resistance also planned, coordinated, and executed sabotage acts on the Nazi electrical power grid, transport facilities, and telecommunications networks. Members provided military intelligence on the German defences known as the Atlantic Wall, and on Wehrmacht deployments and orders of battle for the invasion of Provence on 15 August. The French Resistance played a significant role in facilitating the Allies' rapid advance through France following the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. The Resistance's men and women came from all economic levels and political leanings of French society, including émigrés, academics, students, aristocrats, conservative Roman Catholics (including priests and nuns), Protestants, Jews, Muslims, liberals, anarchists and communists. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) who, in addition to their guerrilla warfare activities, were also publishers of underground newspapers, providers of first-hand intelligence information, and maintainers of escape networks that helped Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind enemy lines. The French Resistance ( French: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations who fought the Nazi occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War. Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.Polish resistance movement in World War II ( Polish Underground State)Īssembly for the National Liberation of Serbia.Pope Pius XII and the German Resistance.Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
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