French resistance

Resistenza partigiana, Partisan Resistance, were pro-Allied Italians during WWII. The Partisans were responsible for finding and executing Mussolini. There were many different groups of Partisans with different political slants - socialist, anarchist, apolitical, Catholic etc. As with the French Resistance, women were an instrumental part of the success of these forces, holding high positions of authority and fighting along side their brothers. Very many Italian Partisans were in their teens…

Mobilisé en 1939, Doisneau retrouve à son retour un Paris occupé où il va user de mille expédients pour subvenir à ces besoins. La presse étant quasi inexistante, il réalise quelques publicités, assure une série de portraits de scientifiques à la demande de Maximilien Vox. Son activité est également souterraine puisqu’il fabrique, tout au long de ces sombres années, de faux papiers pour la Résistance. Il réussit néanmoins à illustrer quelques aspects de la vie quotidienne : rationnement…

Role of women in organized opposition to the German occupiers of France and the Vichy Regime during World War II. The French Resistance, in ...

On Tuesday, the French and British ambassadors plan to honor Virginia Hall, a Baltimore native working in France for British intelligence in World War II.

Robert Doisneau, Paris WWII.

During WW2 in Vernon they were short on food, munitions and freedom, but not on bravery. Read how this Normandy town fought its way to freedom after DDay.

Female couriers operating in occupied France had the second highest Allied fatality rate of the war

Shortly after she agreed to speak to me for an interview, Charlotte Sorkine Noshpitz tells me that she has had a dream. Members of her Resistance group are seated on the floor, the way children in a group sometimes arrange themselves. She is standing — behind them, looking down at their heads. She is shocked...

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In August 1944, members of the FFI cleaning their machine guns before leaving for the front line at the time of the allied liberation of Chartres.