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The threat of the resistance was disproportionate to it’s effectiveness. At the end of WW2 it was estimated that the French resistance had killed about 2000 German soldiers, while sustaining tens of thousands of casualties. But killing all those Maquis required the commitment of large numbers of troops on the part of Germany, troops that were urgently needed elsewhere.