How effective was the French resistance ??

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one of the least effective resistances

It was only effective when Normandy started.

Effective enough to get the job.

Normandy would've been a helluva lot harder without their help.

*get the job done

It was a giant meme. The only real resistance movements were the Belorussian and Yugoslavian ones. The French resistance was a bunch of smaller groups that were mostly intellectual circle jerk socialist that did nothing other than argue and bitch with each other over autistic defintions of marxism

> he doesn't know about the Swing theater of the WW2

French "resistance" is a meme from after the war, so all the Frenchies that were happy to collaborate and finally managed to get the Horst Wessel song right could save face.

The German feared the aggressive French dancer.

heres true redpill
every anti nazi resistance group was shit tier

the only one that was good was yugoslavian because they librated themselves and told everyone including stalin to fuck off

>expecting this thread to not be shit
Big mistake, fuckboi

READ A BOOK ABOUT IT

Soviet partisans were quite effective as well, t b h.

i was talking about countries that were fully occupied like netherlands or poland so i didnt include them obviously

>The only real resistance movements were the Belorussian and Yugoslavian ones
Nice meme

French actually fought in North Africa, Italy, France, West Africa, and Syria while East-Europoors were under occupation

The Partisan opperation under occupation deep behind enemy lines for years.
Face it, France perfromed the worst of all WW2 actors, even their "resistance" was a joke.

They didn't resist so good

Free French Forces, not the French Resistance you fucking dumbass

>French actually fought in North Africa, Italy, France, West Africa, and Syria while East-Europoors were under occupation
Each kind of resistance had it's tasks.

Free France troops abroad and french resistance in France are two different things, like Gwardia Ludowa and 1st Armored Brigade of Polish Army.
Norvegian resistance was assisting british and soviet agents and preventing germans from moving troops to the mainland.
Eastern Europe resistance was working on individual terrorism and disturbing german supply lines. They did their work well.
The most meaningful deed of french resistance that I remember was the stealing of Atlantic Wall plans.

*ties down your Army Group*

Movie when?

stop watching lindybeige

Not as significant as French people like to think it was, but a lot more than you'd expect.

>Normandy would've been a helluva lot harder without their help.
Can I get details pls

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t. lindybeige

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There was a general upising the hours before the landings. They destroyed railways and shit, although I have't read too much into it recently. Basically they simmered for years, then chimped out a few hours before the landings occurred.

The Swing Youth disparagingly called the Hitler Youth the "Homo Youth" while the League of German Maidens were called the "League of Soldiers' Mattresses".[3]

>the Virgin Homo's Youth
>The Chad Swing Kid

What a nothing statement

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The French Resistance spent months prior to D-Day gathering intelligence on German positions and troop movements as well as destroying German infrastructure in the run-up to the invasion. In some cases, objectives Allied units were tasked with found that the French Resistance had already done it for them.

ex. US Army Rangers tasked with seizing the 155mm gun batteries at Point Du Hoc seized the bunkers, only to find that the guns had already been removed out of concerns that they would be sabotaged.

Had the Allies chosen to land in Southern France first, the French Resistance would've been an even greater help, as they were already planning to seize large swathes of the countryside in a mass uprising.

>Basically they simmered for years, then chimped out a few hours before the landings occurred.

Well they waited until the right moment and when they struck, they did it hard and hit the Germans right where it hurt, and it was enough to help make D-Day one of the most spectacular successes in military history. The Poles more or less did the same thing with Operation Tempest, except they Soviets responded halted short of Warsaw because they had no interest in allowing an independent Polish state to survive.

Okay, the Maquis never pulled off the successes of Tito or Armia Krajowa in part because France wasn't as well suited for that type of warfare (Poland and Yugoslavia are much more rural and rugged, and their populations are more able to live off the land) and in part it wasn't necessary (the American and British armies were going to have to do most of the heavy lifting anyway). Nonetheless, they contributed to the eventual Allied victory.

There is more resistance in a lightbulb than in FR

I hope you didn't misconstrue it as a bad thing. The French were smart about it. Open rebellion against 1.25 million armed to the teeth and paranoid occupiers would have spelled the end of the resistance as a fighting force and risked countrywide destruction. Poles, Ukrainians and Yugoslavia didn't have the luxury of western european status so they had to fight.

>because they librated themselves
This is a meme. The Soviets are the one who liberated Belgrade. The Germans left, not because they feared the partisans (who spent most of their time fighting Croats, and avoiding German troops) but because they were defeated in the east. Also, keep in mind that fascist Italy was out of the war in 1943, and the Italian troops in Yugoslavia refused to join Germany.

Indeed, the Poles and the Soviets were facing wholesale extermination (the Final Solution was merely a dry-run of German plans for Eastern Europe) so of course they fought like cornered beasts because they had no choice.

And we should not forget of course that the Partisans, be they French, Dutch, Russian, Jewish, Polish, or Yugoslav consistently suffered atrocious casualties compared to the professional armies of the Allied Powers. They all had to dance to the Germans' tune, whereas the professional armies had the freedom to choose where and when to strike and to even the odds through deception ("Major Martin") or brute force (strategic bombing). In this respect, the resistance movements did the heavy lifting.