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The 80 year-old Basch was a French Jew, a former president of the League for the Rights of Men and had been a prominent dreyfusard during the Dreyfus affair, marking him out as an enemy of the "New Order in Europe" by his very existence, though the elderly pacifist Basch was not actually involved in the resistance. [144]
The Bataillons de la Jeunesse militant communist youth movement was incorporated into the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP). Ultimately, unification took place from late 1943 to early 1944 when the Armée Secrète, the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, and other organisations gave birth to the French Forces of the Interior (FFI).
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.
Winter in Wartime, 2008 adaptation of Jan Terlouw's 1972 novel, about a Dutch youth whose favors for members of the Dutch Resistance during the last winter of World War II have a devastating impact on his family; The Resistance Banker Bankier van het verzet (film), is a 2018 Dutch World-War-II-period drama film directed by Joram Lürsen. The ...
The Maquis: A History of the French Resistance Movement. New York: Bobbs Merrill Company, Inc. Cobb, Matthew (2009). The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis. London: Simon and Schuster UK. Davies, Peter (2001). France and the Second World War: Occupation, Collaboration and Resistance. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780415238960.
The National Front for an Independent France, better known simply as National Front (French: Front national or Front national de l'indépendance de la France) was a World War II French Resistance movement created to unite all of the resistance organizations together to fight the Nazi occupation forces and Vichy France under Marshall Pétain.
The Milice française (French Militia), generally called la Milice (lit. ' the militia '; French pronunciation:), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy régime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II.
Franc-Tireur was a movement of the French Resistance founded in Lyon in November 1940 under the name France Liberté, [27] and renamed Franc-Tireur in December 1941. Le Franc-Tireur is also the name of the movement's underground newspaper, which printed thirty-seven issues between December 1941 and August 1944.