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Resistance, Spies, Saboteurs, Partisans Underground groups from France to Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union had a major impact on the effort.

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Old April 12th, 2008, 03:17 AM
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Question The French resistance?

I know some things that they did before and during D-Day, but not that much. Does anyone have a good handle on this, in general?

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Re: The French resistance?

What exactly are you looking for and for what country?
French
Dutch
Belgian

Just D-day, Eastern Front, Polish??

Books, movies etc??
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Old April 24th, 2008, 02:25 PM
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Sorry, forgot about this one!!!

Any of those you listed above would be nice, specifically, I'm looking for how many trains where delayed, destroyed, as well as equipment of that was carried on those trains. I seem to remember one train on a documentery where it showed a German train having half-tracks on flatbed cars flying off the blown up RR tracks down a sharp hill type terrain area!!!

No idea where it was located, maybe France, Eastern front, no idea, I'm sure someone else must have seen this one somewhere.

Was this footage real, and how much actual equipment was destroyed (in general), let alone causing German supply problems......

Cheers, anything anyone can add would work to help satisfy my curious mind here.

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Re: The French resistance?

Here is a very comprehensive article on the French Resistance on Wikipedia with a number of shoot off articles with even more detail. Unlike most articles it is written as if it were an official research paper with tons of sources.

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Here is a link to the over view of Resistance movements during the war:

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Your a life saver Matt, thanks, I'll see what I can find!!

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Here is a very comprehensive article on the French Resistance on Wikipedia with a number of shoot off articles with even more detail. Unlike most articles it is written as if it were an official research paper with tons of sources.

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Here is a link to the over view of Resistance movements during the war:

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yea, man. Wikipedia is always the best source. I know that in D-day the members of the resistance were given secret activation codes on the radio which was the signal to blow up rail road tracks which would have brought in reinforcements and destroyed telephone polls to disrupt cummunications.
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Speaking of The French underground. Videogames anyone???
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