I'm new to this board and i'll speak about my region, the northernmost region of France, during the "occupation" My region, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais (80 % of the bombs dropped on France during WW2, The flee from Dunkirk in1940), had been, for military reasons and probably for the coal it had in its underground, attached to the Brussel military commandment.
Therefore, the German military presence was so dense in this area, making hard for any resistance organisation to establish an efficient network.
At this time, many miners set themselves in state of strike, to bug the german war effort and slow down coal extraction that would deserve the german war machine...
When time had come to kick the enemy out, they were there to take arms aside from the Allied...
So i think Resistance took a great part in the liberation of France; without its action, the success of the landings would have been compromised and perhaps many more American soldiers would have died in normandy, but be sure France would never have been able to break its chains without the GIs
I'm new to this board and i'll speak about my region, the northernmost region of France, during the "occupation"
My region, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais (80 % of the bombs dropped on France during WW2, The flee from Dunkirk in1940), had been, for military reasons and probably for the coal it had in its underground, attached to the Brussel military commandment.
Therefore, the German military presence was so dense in this area, making hard for any resistance organisation to establish an efficient network.
At this time, many miners set themselves in state of strike, to bug the german war effort and slow down coal extraction that would deserve the german war machine...
When time had come to kick the enemy out, they were there to take arms aside from the Allied...
So i think Resistance took a great part in the liberation of France; without its action, the success of the landings would have been compromised and perhaps many more American soldiers would have died in normandy, but be sure France would never have been able to break its chains without the GIs