French Resistance in Normandy against the Gestapo before and after D-day

How many in the resistance? It's like asking how long is a piece of string. There was no recruitment office.
Raymond Ruffin who wrote the book "The resistance normande face à la Gestapo" counts 12000 in 1943 to 22000 in 1944 (that's for Normandy)

260,000 resistant cards have been given out. These cards have to be asked for by the resistant (which excludes those shot or dead in a camp) and excludes those that felt they didn't need such a card. After the request, an investigation was carried out to find corobarative evidence of their activities.

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In these videos we will visit D-day sites as if I was guiding you. We will actualy visit in a way not possible if you were with me. video allows teletranporting a few miles in a few seconds.
This first video sets the scene for D-day. Why it was on the 6th June 1944 and why was it on the normandy beaches between Caen and the Cherbourg penisnsula.

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Visited sites - as of date of upload
Why D-Day
Pegasus bridge
Omaha beach 1
Omaha beach 2
Sword beach
American airborne 1
American airborne 2
Juno beach
Pointe du Hoc
Utah beach
Gold beach
British airborne
Waverly Wray
Band of Brothers
La Fierre
101st Airborne
Port en Bessin
Michael Wittman - Villers Bocage - Gaumesnil
The Mahlmann line


Projected visits -


Merville gun battery
The Dives bridges
General Falley
Longues gun battery
Arromanches and the Mulberries
Port en bessin
82nd airborne
Donald Burgett
Totalise
Worthington Force
Falaise pocket
Taking St Lo
Operation Cobra
Graignes massacre
Joe Beryle
Ed Shames
Angoville au plain
Battle of Bloody gulch
Taking Cherbourg
Maisy gun battery.
Abbey d'Ardenne and the Canadian 7th June advance
Hillman
Douvre radar station

Photo credits
- US national archives
- Bundes archives
- Archives ecpad

Bibliography

La resitance Normande face à la Gestapo - Raymond Ruffin
La Resistance - Jean Quellian
Le Pays d'auge le berceaux de la resistance normande.

Tags

French resistance, Louis Alie, Jean Moulin, Raymond Aubrac, Lucie Aubrac, Caen, Bayeux, Saint georges du Vievre, Saint Etienne l'Alier, Rouen,
Photo credits
US national archives
Bundes archives

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