The Resistance (World War II)

216 Pages·1979·50.305 MB·English

by  Russell Miller

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Underground fighters, armed with weapons
air-dropped by the Allies, take cover from
German fire behind a ridge in the Vercors
area of southeastern France in February of 1944.
At that time, the Resistance movements in
the occupied countries of Western Europe
were building toward a crescendo of activity
in anticipation of an Allied invasion.
THE RESISTANCE
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OF THE RESISTANCE
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Netherlands ies Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
Oe Belgium, Norway and France (left) fell to
! (i | Hitler's invading armies. In each countn mall
>. fans underground groups launched seeming:
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resistance networks expanded and grew
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Ps 0 * Brussels harassment, their cumulative activities started
lish che™ Belgium to take on strategic importance, pinning
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fp «Bern 3 In France (right), the efforts of undersmune
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guarded internal borders that were created by _
German partitioning. The Germans occupied
the northern two thirds of the nation,
Lyons annexing Alsace and Lorraine outright and
forbidding movement into and out of a
zone in the industrial north. The southern third
of the country was governed from Vichy by
a puppet regime until November 1942, when
German forces took direct control to meet
Mediterranean Sea ee the threat posed by the Allied invasion of North
Corsica _ Africa. Italy occupied part of southeastern _
France until September 1943, when the Allied
invasion forces knocked Italy out of the War.
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