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Gheorghe Gaston Grossmann (1918–2010) (changed his name from Grossman to Marin after he returned to Romania after World War II) Henri Marie Joseph Grouès (1912–2007), better known as Abbé Pierre, Catholic priest and Maquis; William Grover-Williams (1903–1945), Anglo-French racing driver; Germaine Guérin, brothel owner in Lyons
Women in the French Resistance played an important role in the context of resistance against occupying German forces during World War II. Women represented 15 to 20% of the total number of French Resistance fighters within the country. [citation needed] Women also represented 15% of political deportations to Nazi concentration camps. [citation ...
The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade. Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (11 August 1909 – 20 July 1989) was the leader of the French Resistance network "Alliance", under the code name "Hérisson" ("Hedgehog") after the arrest of its former leader, Georges Loustaunau-Lacau (“Navarre”), during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II.
Unlike the andartes, who were resisting Axis rule in Greece and preferred a democratic decision-making progress, the maquis bands tended to be dominated by a charismatic leader, usually an older man who was not a réfractaire; a chef who was commonly a community leader; somebody who before the war had been a junior political or military leader ...
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Pages in category "Female resistance members of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 275 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Gertrude Mary Lindell (11 September 1895 – 8 January 1987), [1] Comtesse de Milleville, code named Marie-Claire and Comtesse de Moncy, was an English woman, a front-line nurse in World War I and a member of the French Resistance in World War II.