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The resistance movement developed to provide the Allies with intelligence, attack the Germans when possible and to assist the escape of Allied airmen. In the immediate aftermath of the June 1940 surrender, France went into a period of shock.

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The resistance started in August 1940 and ended successfully in November 1944 when the independent Macedonian state was formed.

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Charles de Gaulle led the Free French forces in resisting capitulation to Germany during World War II and became provisional president of France in the immediate aftermath of the war. Later he was an architect of the Fifth Republic and was president from 1959 to 1969.

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Resistance workers carried out thousands of acts of sabotage against the German occupiers. The risks were great. More than 90,00 resisters were killed, tortured or deported by the Germans.

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The french resistance was a collection of organisations who fought the Nazi occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War.

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On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.

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Resistance in France began as soon as the Germans invaded in May 1940. At first, people acted alone, helping Allied prisoners and soldiers to escape from the Nazis, or hiding Jewish people who were being persecuted. People wrote and printed leaflets against the Nazis, and distributed them secretly.

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The French Resistance supplied the Allies with vital intelligence reports as well as doing a huge amount of work to disrupt the German supply and communication lines within France.