Maquis insurgency

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The Maquis insurgency was a French Resistance movement of rural guerrilla fighters who conducted sabotage, intelligence, and armed attacks against German occupation forces and the Vichy regime during World War II.

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instanceOf French Resistance movement
insurgency
alliance Allied powers NERFINISHED
Free French Forces NERFINISHED
composedOf Spanish Republicans NERFINISHED
draft evaders
escaped prisoners of war
political refugees
rural guerrilla fighters
conflict World War II
country France
endTime 1944
1945
hasEffect inspired later European resistance narratives
strengthened postwar legitimacy of French Resistance
hasPart Maquis de Bretagne NERFINISHED
Maquis de l’Ain NERFINISHED
Maquis des Glières NERFINISHED
Maquis du Jura NERFINISHED
Maquis du Limousin NERFINISHED
Maquis du Mont Mouchet NERFINISHED
Maquis du Vercors NERFINISHED
ideology French patriotism
Gaullism NERFINISHED
anti-fascism
communism
republicanism
socialism
language French
location rural France
mainActivity ambushes
armed attacks
attacks on communication lines
intelligence gathering
railway sabotage
sabotage
notableEvent Battle of Glières NERFINISHED
Vercors uprising NERFINISHED
objective restore French sovereignty
support Allied invasion of France
undermine German occupation in France
opponent German occupation forces in France
Milice française NERFINISHED
Nazi Germany
Vichy regime NERFINISHED
partOf French Resistance NERFINISHED
result contributed to liberation of France
startTime 1942
supportedBy British government NERFINISHED
De Gaulle’s Free French in London NERFINISHED
Office of Strategic Services NERFINISHED
Special Operations Executive NERFINISHED
United States government NERFINISHED
usesTactic guerrilla warfare
hit-and-run attacks
sabotage of industrial targets
sabotage of transport infrastructure

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