Who was in The French Resistance of World War 2?

Answer 1

* Abbé Pierre (Catholic priest, Maquis, transition of Jews to Switzerland and safe Spain) * Edith Piaf * José Aboulker * Gilbert Renault, (1904-1984) * Berty Albrecht, (1893-1943) * Dimitri Amilakhvari, (1906-1942) * Louis Aragon, (1897-1982) * Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, (1900-1969) * Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie, Roman Catholic conservative politician * Msgr. François Ducaud-Bourget, Roman Catholic priest. Helped Jews. Escaped to Spain from the Gestapo. * Serge Asher-Ravanel * Lucie Aubrac * Jacqueline Auriol, (1917-2000) * Josephine Baker * Raoul Batany, (1926-1944) * Samuel Beckett * Robert Benoist * Georges Bidault, (1899-1983) * Denise Bloch * Marc Bloch, (Historian, 1886-1944) * France Bloch-Serazin, (Chemist, 1913-1943) * Tony Bloncourt * Marc Boegner, (1881-1970) * Raoul Boulanger * Claude Bourdet, (1909-1996) * Pierre Brossolette * Jean Cavailles * Albert Camus (writer) * Roger Carcassonne * Donald Caskie, (1902-1983) * Rene Char * Peter Churchill, SOE * Nancy Cunard Poet, writer and anarchist worked in London as a translator (1896 - 1965) * Charlotte Delbo, (1913-1985) * Martha Desrumeaux * Jacques Duclos * Marguerite Duras (writer) * Paul Eluard (poet, communist resistance) * Honoré D'Estienne d'Orves, Catholic, sympathizer of the Action Française, naval officer (1901-1941) * Joseph Epstein * Antoinette Feuerwerker, (1912-2003), wife of David Feuerwerker, member of Combat * David Feuerwerker, (1912-1980), rabbi of Brive-la-Gaillarde, member of Combat * Marie-Madeleine Fourcade * Henri Frager * Henri Frenay (Founder of Combat, government minister) * Varian Fry * Cristino Garcia, (1914-1946) * Genevieve de Gaulle-Anthonioz, (niece of General de Gaulle) * Albert Guérisse * Georges Guingouin, communist resistance * Salomon Gluck, physician * Michel Hollard, * Arthur Honegger, (1892-1955) * Max Hymans * René Iché, (artist, sculptor, 1897-1954) * Éliane Jeannin-Garreau * Germain Jousse * Bernard Karsenty * Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont * Marcel Langer * Jacques Lusseyran * André Malraux ("Colonel Berger") * Missak Manouchian * Robert Marjolin * Julien Meline * Jean-Pierre Melville (Filmaker) * Pierre Mendès-France * Edmond Michelet (government minister) * Jean Moulin (head of the CNR) * Jean Pierre-Bloch (1905-1999) * Christian Pineau * Eliane Plewman, SOE * Paul Rassinier, Libération Nord resistance group * Jorge Semprun, Former Culture Minister of Spain, communist resistance Francs-Tireurs Partisans * Odette Sansom * Raymond Sommer * Suzanne Spaak * Evelyne Sullerot (historian and sociologist) * Violette Szabo * Dorothy Tartiere * Germaine Tillion (anthropologist) * Charles Tillon, communist resistance * Berthe Vicogne-Fraser * Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier * Jean-Pierre Vernant, philologist and anthropologist * Pierre Villon, communist resistance * Pierre de Vomécourt * Philippe de Vomécourt * Nancy Wake * Gabrielle Weidner (1914-1945) * Johan Hendrik Weidner (1912-1994) * William Grover-Williams * Jean-Pierre Wimille * Chuck Yeager, a US pilot shot down over France and with the help of the Resistance made it back to England. * Tristan Tzara * Gheorghe Gaston Grossmann (changed his name from Grossman to Marin after he returned to Romania after WW2) * Vladimir Jankélévitch, (1903-1985) * Ostap Kuzma, member of FFI based in Troyes * Dimitri Shterban * Darius Campbell * Prince Louis Napoléon, pretender to the Imperial French throne

Answer 2

Thousands of people were involved in the French resistance. Many were French men and women, but the British and later in the war the Americans were involved, primarily as organizers. Winston Churchill instigated the SOE (Special Operations Executive) and tasked them to" Set Europe ablaze". Though SOE were not exclusive to France and worked in most theatres of the war from France through Belgium,Holland Chechoslovakia,Poland and even the far East such as Burma.

F section was the SOE section for France and was run by Maurice Buckmaster with Vera Atkins as his assistant. Many very brave men and women were in the ranks of F section (Violet Szabo, Peter Churchill (No relation to Winston) Yvonne Basedon, Noor Inyat Khan (a Sufi Princess) and many many more. But the SOE were not the only resistants, In the latter years special units known as Jedburghs were sent in, these usually consisted of 3 men, 1 Brit, 1 French and 1 American. The Maquis were also resistants, mainly young Frenchmen hiding in the hills and woodlands to avoid being sent to Germany as forced labour. They were usually trained and armed by British officers and/or members of SOE. One outstanding example was George Millar, a young Englishman that fought alongside the Maquis.

The strange thing is, virtually as soon as Paris was liberated, General de Galle told the British and American resistants they were no longer welcome and told them to leave France immediately!!

Answer 3

Jean Moulin of the National Council of Resistance (CNR) organized all the loosely associated resistance groups under the CNR and they cooperated with General De Gaulle who was in Britain. The groups did cooperate with Jean Moulin and the spy networks of England and the US.

Answer 4

Lot of them were communists and there were the best-organised.

Answer 5

During WWII, after the Nazis had overrun the country.

Answer 6

the french resistance was a group of french a forien people who fought 4 France and destroyed the German war effort in France

Answer 7

general Charles de gaulle