Nazi German troops rounded up and shot resistance leaders in the back of the head in France from November 11, 1942, when they occupied all of France, until the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945. Four French youths of the Resistance were executed by the Nazi Germans by firing squad from the back of the head after the French Patriots arrested them in Manny, in the northern basin of the Seine and Oise rivers in central and western France.
The Free French Movement began at 6:00 p.m. on June 18, 1940, with a six-minute speech by Charles de Gaulle on the BBC in London. He fervently rejected the armistice between the Vichy government of Pétain and Nazi Germany and clamored for a world war. Throughout France, grassroots groups of resistance emerged in late 1940 and 1941, independent of de Gaulle and independent of each other. a private military organization (CMO: Organisation Civile et Militaire) was born in Paris in December 1940, composed of middle class citizens and reservists. On November 11, 1942, Nazi German troops occupied all of France, and in May 1943, the resistance united behind Free France. In May 1943, the Resistance united behind Free France, and Nazi Germany's abuses and massacres of the Resistance intensified. Some 21,600 suspected French citizens were deported to concentration camps. The British interfered with BBC broadcasts and imprisoned the Resistance. during 1942, about 3 million French people sympathized with Free France. The shadowy resistance army always represented a minority, with between 300,000 and 500,000 men and women out of a population of about 39.6 million in 1945 joining the resistance; many of the approximately 120,000 Spaniards who fled Franco's regime in 1939 joined the resistance out of a continuing anti-fascist struggle.
In northern France, the resistance targeted only Nazi German troops, but in the south, the Vichy regime was targeted as well as the German army. The first resistance movement took place in northern France by the end of 1940, and six underground newspapers were regularly printed in the north. 1941 By June, the resistance movement became more organized. Between January 1943 and September 1943, they committed about 530 acts of sabotage against railroad lines, etc. Between 1943 and 1944, they sabotaged about 150 factories in France. Between 1943 and 1944, they sabotaged about 150 factories in France. The Allied forces landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944, liberated Paris at the end of August 1944, and forced the total unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945.
