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They helped so much in the war itself by keeping those Germans in France occupied while the Allies took over other parts of Europe back from the Germans. They helped in June 1944 for D-Day which was a huge turning point for the Allies and helped them push the Germans back a very far amount.

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By the end of 1940 there were plenty of underground newspapers being printed regularly to inform the French people of what was going on. They would try to be as secretive as possible which ended up working out for them but if they were discovered in a secret hideout or something like that they probably would have been obliterated by the Germans.

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On June 22nd 1941, all the communist groups within France joined forces to create one group. This simple act greatly increased its potency. On November 11th 1942, German forces occupied the whole of France. This meant that the whole country was occupied and the attitude of the north quickly transferred itself to the south.

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“In Paris, I found myself surrounded by Germans; they were all over the place. They played music, and people would go and listen to them! All along rue de Rivoli, as far as you could see from place de la Concorde, there were enormous swastika banners five or six floors high. I just thought, This is impossible.

Imagine that someone comes into your home—someone you don’t like—he settles down, gives orders: “Here we are, we’re at home now; you must obey.” To me that was unbearable.”

― Pearl Witherington Cornioley, Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent

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As you would figure there were many struggles in the fight against the Germans, especially since it was just a resistance with those who were willing to participate in the fight back against the Nazis. Some of these struggles were a shortage of supplies because they were in occupied France where there were a lot of Germans.

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There were many resistances to the Germans. There were resistances that would report back to Gaulle such as the French Revolution. There were also Communist resistances and some that took direct orders from Special Orders Executives.

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Charles de Gaulle basically led the resistance and on June 18, 1940 he addressed the people of France from London. He called on the French people to fight back against the Germans. The message hit hard in occupied France, but not so much in Vichy France.

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When Germany took France in just 6 weeks it was a huge blow to the morale of the French people. Many people thought that the government had let them down, but some decided to fight back