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Lyrics:

Friend, do you hear the dark flight of the crows over our plains?
Friend, are you deaf to the cries of our nation enchained?
Hey partisans, workers and peasants this is the signal!
Tonight the enemy will know the price of blood and tears…
Arise from the mine, descend from the hill, comrades.
Take the rifles, the machine gun, the grenades out of the straw.
Hey killers, by bullet or by knife, kill swiftly!
Hey saboteur, take care with your load: dynamite…
It is us smashing the prison bars for our brothers,
The hatred on our backs and the hunger that drives us, the misery.
There are countries where people are dreaming deep in there beds,
Here, we see, we walk and we kill, we die.
Here everyone knows what he wants, what he does, when he leaves;
Friend, if you go down, a friend out of the shadows takes your place.
Tomorrow black blood will dry in the bright sun on the roads,
Sing, colleagues, freedom is listening to us in the night…
Friend, are you deaf to the cries of our nation enchained?
Friend, do you hear the dark flight of the crows over our plains?

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Song of The French Resistance - "Le Chant Des Partisans"

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Below is the 18th June address that general deGaulle gave over the radio in 1940. This speech was the start point of the Free French movement and the Resistance

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"The leaders who, for many years, were at the head of French armies, have formed a government. This government, alleging our armies to be undone, agreed with the enemy to stop fighting. Of course, we were subdued by the mechanical, ground and air forces of the enemy. Infinitely more than their number, it was the tanks, the airplanes, the tactics of the Germans which made us retreat. It was the tanks, the airplanes, the tactics of the Germans that surprised our leaders to the point to bring them there where they are today.

But has the last word been said? Must hope disappear? Is defeat final? No!

Believe me, I speak to you with full knowledge of the facts and tell you that nothing is lost for France. The same means that overcame us can bring us to a day of victory. For France is not alone! She is not alone! She is not alone! She has a vast Empire behind her. She can align with the British Empire that holds the sea and continues the fight. She can, like England, use without limit the immense industry of the United States.

This war is not limited to the unfortunate territory of our country. This war is not finished by the battle of France. This war is a world wide war. All the faults, all the delays, all the suffering, do not prevent there to be, in the world, all the necessary means to one day crush our enemies. Vanquished today by mechanical force, we will be able to overcome in the future by a superior mechanical force.

The destiny of the world is here. I, General de Gaulle, currently in London, invite the officers and the French soldiers who are located in British territory or who would come there, with their weapons or without their weapons, I invite the engineers and the special workers of armament industries who are located in British territory or who would come there, to put themselves in contact with me.

Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished."

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Feel free to leave comments.

Please be as respectful and eloquent as possible.

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Paris was captured without a fight. In fact there would be no major sieges of French cities during the war, a stark contrast to the eastern front.

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The fall of France in 1940 was very unexpected and frightening for many in the Allied camp. In a few short months the Germans gained control of much of western Europe while suffering almost no battlefield defeats.

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Petain was a hero of the first world war, and was respected by much of the population at the beginning of WW2. 

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Petain was the leader of Vichy France, the Nazi-allied government that was based out of the south of France.

Many Vichy officials were complicit in the crimes the Nazis committed in France, and were tried after the war for treason and various crimes against humanity.

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deGaulle walks down the Champs Elysee after the liberation of Paris, 1944.

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General deGaulle, leader of the free French (tall guy in the hat, middle)

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General deGaulle, leader of the free French (tall guy in the hat, middle)

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The free French were organized out of colonies which had defected from Vichy, and from formerly French land the Allies had liberated. The free French also coordinated with the Resistance groups inside of Vichy and Nazi occupied France.

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On surviving Buchenwald and returning to the world

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"After a year in Buchenwald, I understood that life was not at all as I had been taught it ‒ neither life nor society. What was off kilter, Buchenwald or the ordinary world ‒ what we refer to as normal life ‒?"

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JEAN HÉLION, 1958. "PORTRAIT OF JACQUES LUSSEYRAN"

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JEAN HÉLION, 1958. "PORTRAIT OF JACQUES LUSSEYRAN"

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Jacques Lusseyran was born in 1924 and was blinded in an accident when he was 8 years old. Jacques was very active in the resistance, serving as an interviewer of perspective members and a manager for the distribution of a resistance newspaper. In January 1944 he was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Because he was not directly involved with the sabotage or espionage aspects of the Resistance, his contributions can be hard to quantify.

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On why the Resistance was made up of many young people:
"The men over thirty round about us were afraid: for their wives and their children — these were real reasons; but also for their possessions, their position, and that is what made us angry; above all for their lives, which they clung to much more than we did to ours. We were less frightened than they were. The years ahead would prove the point. Four-fifths of the Resistance in France was the work of men less than thirty years old." - Jacques Lusseyran

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Jacques was killed in a car crash in 1971. He was 47.

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Jacques wrote an autobiography about his time in the Resistance. It deals a lot with philosophy and spirituality, so don't expect Bondish escapades.

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Why children are sometimes more intelligent than adults:

"I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults, who, at best, know only a fraction of what they say. The reason is simply that children know everything with their whole beings, while we know it only with our heads."

-Jacques Lusseyran

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Jacques was one of twenty French prisoners in Buchenwald who survived the war. A very small portion of the 21,000 inmates at liberation. He was spared from the forced labor that occurred in the camp because of his blindness.
In total more than 200,000 people were incarcerated in the camp. The mortality rate in the camp was horrendous, and more than 50,000 prisoners were killed. The prisoners were killed by exhaustion, starvation, disease, hanging, shooting and torture.
Buchenwald was run in large part by the SS, which was the paramilitary wing of the Nazi party. This meant that the camp management was composed of only the choicest Nazi fanatics.
The prison population was comprised of any and all enemies of the Nazi state. Jews, POWs, Resistance members (like Jacques), homosexuals, and political prisoners were all present.