72004 FRENCH RESISTANCE 'FERNAND AND JEAN'

The first organizations that belonged to the French Resistance, also known as the Resistance Movement for short (fr. La Resistance), began to emerge as early as 1940, and therefore very shortly after the defeat of France in the same year's campaign. Their main goal was to fight mainly the German, and to a lesser extent, the Italian occupier. Institutions of the Vichy collaborating with Germany also fought. Until 1944, there were many organizations of the Resistance Movement in France, including the French Hope, the Special Organization, and the Civil and Military Organization. However, there is also a clear trend for these scattered and often conflicting organizations to submit to the Committee of Free France, and in February 1944 they established the French Internal Forces (Friar Forces Francaises de l'Interieur), which was strictly military in nature and any political disputes have been set aside. The French Internal Forces included both communist and right-wing troops. The main activities of this organization were to directly or indirectly support the Allied invasion of Normandy, and later the Allied forces liberating France. It is worth adding that La Resistance in the fall of 1943 had a population of several thousand people. It did not take on a truly mass character until the summer of 1944.