In this case it is customary to distinguish between different organizations French Resistance movements or networks.
A Resistance Network is an organization created for a specific military purpose, usually intelligence gathering, sabotage, or assisting Allied aircrews in downing enemy lines. The Resistance Movement, on the other hand, focused on educating and organizing the population, "raising awareness and organizing the masses as broadly as possible."
BCRA Network
The French Army and the Coming out of the Armistice and Germany's defeat in July 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked the Free French government in exile (by General de Gaulle) to set up a secret service in occupied France to counter German operations The threat code was named after Operation Sea Lion, in anticipation of a cross-channel invasion of the UK. Colonel André Dewavrin (also known as Colonel Passy), who had previously worked for France's military intelligence service, in the Deuxième Bureau, assumed responsibility for establishing such a network. Its main objective was to inform military operations in London, Germany's Atlantic coast and the English Channel. The spy network is known as the Branch CIA and Operations (BCRA), and its operations have been carried out by volunteers being parachuted into France and nourishing local drug-resistant cells.
Nearly 2,000 volunteers were active after the war, one of the most effective and best-known agents, Gilbert Reynaud, for his deeds was awarded mainly the Legion of Liberation and later the Legion of Honor Under the assumed name of Colonel Remy, he returned to France in August 1940, shortly after the French surrender. There, in November 1940, he organized a network BCRA, the Notre-Dame de Confrérie (Notre-Dame Brothers), which provided photos, maps, known and important information on the defense of Germany with the Allies most active and Important resistance to the Atlantic Wall. From 1941 onwards, such as the network allowed BCRA armed paratroopers, weapons and radio equipment to be sent to France for missions.
Another important BCRA operator, Henri Honoré D'Etienne D'Orves, a naval officer, developed a network of 26 people in France. He was betrayed, arrested in May 1941, and photographed on August 29, 1941.
Pino, one of the founders of the Christian Liberation Movement of the North, also has BCRA roots. During his trip to London in April 1942, Pinault by the BCRA was assigned the task of creating two new intelligence systems, one called the Phalanx, and the other called Cohors-Asturies. These networks played a vital role in the war.
Movement Purple Resistance (Movement d'unification du Resistance, MUR) is a French resistance organization, a reorganization of the three main resistance movements ("Fighting", "Franc, Tireur", and "Liberation Sud") In January 1943. Later in 1943, the BCRA and the US Resistance Change merged their intelligence networks.
Another BCRA affiliate is known as Gallia, an intelligence network specializing in military intelligence and police activities. Throughout the second half of 1943 and into the spring of 1944, its importance increased until it became the largest BCRA network in Vichy, employing approximately 2,500 sources, contacts, couriers and analysts. Gallia's work did not stop after the 1944 landings in Normandy and Provence, providing information to the Allies for the bombing of military targets by the retreating German forces. Following their defeat in the Spanish Civil War in early 1939, approximately half a million Spanish rebels fled to France, escaping imprisonment and execution. On the north side of the Pyrenees, refugees were held in internment camps (such as Camp Gurs) and Camp Vernet. Although more than half of the refugees were repatriated by the time the Vichy regime of Pétain declared in 1940, between 120,000 and 150,000 who remained in Spain (or elsewhere) were political prisoners, and similar services abroad were toiling Obligatoire, Compagnies TRAVAILLEURS Etrangers ( Foreign Workers Corporation), or CTE, began pursuing them as slave labor. The CTE allowed prisoners to leave the concentration camps if they agreed to work in German factories, but as many as 60,000 Nazis and party members who had been recruited for labor managed to escape, and, instead, they joined the French resistance.
Thousands of suspected anti-fascist communists and partisans were, nevertheless, deported to concentration camps in Germany. Sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where, of the 10,000 Spanish registered, only 2,000 survived the war.
Many Spanish escaped to join the French Resistance, and others formed their own autonomous groups, becoming known as the Spanish Maquis. In April 1942, Spanish Communists formed an organization called the XIV Corps, an armed guerrilla movement, which by June 1944 had a fighting strength of approximately 3,400 men. Although the first group worked closely with the Franc Tireurs et guerrillas (FTP), it re-formed in May 1944 as the Guerrilleros Espa?oles (Spanish Guerrilla Group, AGE). The change of name was intended to convey the composition of the group: Spanish soldiers, who were eventually advocated by the fall of General Francisco Franco. Afterwards, the German troops were driven out of France and the Spanish Marquis refocused on Spain. Main article: Polish resistance in France during World War II
Most Polish soldiers and some did not evacuate after the German victory in 1940, as well as Polish civilians from France shot down by Polish pilots in France, Poland He was a pilot in the Royal Air Force and joined the French Resistance. Example: Tony Harlick and Alexander Kawa?kowski. Although not officially part of the French Resistance, French-speaking Indian soldiers joined American forces in causing resistance among local French civilians in order to bring American aid. Indian soldiers also served as French translators for U.S. military officers and successfully prompted intelligence to local authorities and civilians in France, Belgium, and North Africa.