The French Resistance played a significant role in facilitating the Allies' rapid advance through France following the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. The number of French people participating in the organized resistance is estimated at from one to three percent of the total population.

The Resistance's men and women came from many different parts of French society, including émigrés, academics, students, aristocrats, conservative Roman Catholics (including clergy), Protestants, Jews, Muslims, liberals, anarchists, communists, and some fascists. They also provided first-hand intelligence information, and escape networks that helped Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind Axis enemy lines. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground newspapers. The French Resistance ( French: La Résistance) was a collection of organizations that fought the Nazi occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France during the Second World War. Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.Polish resistance movement in World War II ( Polish Underground State)Īssembly for the National Liberation of Serbia.Political dissidence in the Empire of Japan.Pope Pius XII and the German Resistance.Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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