[Lurker]

The French Resistance was nearly worthless.

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[stuartcr]

I’m guessing the one’s in the resistance that died and their loved ones, would disagree.

[Comstock1]

There is only one word that you need to remember to describe France during WWII: “Vichy”.

[riverdawg]

“The French Resistance was nearly worthless.”

That’s not what Eisenhower said in his memoir, Crusade in Europe. He, and many others, said that the French Resistance, by sabotaging rail lines east and south of Normandy, was largely responsible for the inability of Germany to reinforce troops quickly on the Western front and slow the pace of the Allies invasion after the initial landings.