• Many French people awoke only slowly to the real nature and ideology of the
    Nazi occupation and its Vichy sidekicks. Apart from a demonstration in Paris,
    11th November 1940, and an impressive Communist led miners strike in the North
    East in May 1941, there was very little public confrontation with the Germans
    in the first 2 years after defeat.
• The French Communist Party had been stunned by the non-aggression pact between
    Hitler and Stalin in August 1939, and was then declared illegal under the
    Vichy regime. This meant that organisationally they played little role in
    the first stirrings of the Resistance, although individual grassroots militants
    were involved from the outset, as in the miners' strike. Only after the invasion
    of Russia was the CP able to regroup - but it quickly became a main player
    in terms of the politics, organisation and tactics of the Resistance.
• As Serge Ravanel of the French Resistance in the Toulouse area acknowledged:
    "During the War of Spain our comrades had acquired the knowledge that
    we did not possess; they knew how to make bombs; they knew how to set ambushes;
    they had a profound knowledge of the technique of guerrilla war". In
    addition to this expertise it was said of the Spaniards that their bravery
    was unequalled in combat and that there was no question of treason or desertion.
• It was through the CNR and MUR that de Gaulle was able to cement his
    position inside France. Arms supplies from London and Algiers went to groups
    which recognised his leadership and accepted a degree of tactical control
    from the British SOE. The guerrillas of the FTPF were left to arm themselves
    with weapons captured from the Germans or by intercepting Allied supply drops
    intended for the Armee Secrete. Alongside political differences, there was
    a difference over tactics. The Armee Secrete argued that the Resistance should
    hold itself in readiness to support an Allied landing. The FTPF argued for
    an immediate campaign of harassment, sabotage and ambush of German troops.
    They also wanted to assassinate individual German officers, a tactic de Gaulle
    rejected.
• The main grouping was the Communist led Union Nacional Espanola
    (UNE) formed in November 1942. In 1944 its name changed to Agrupacion Guerrillera
    Espanola. A second organisation, the Alianza Democratica Espanola, rejecting
    Communist control, was formed by the Anarchists (CNT/FAI); Socialists (UGT/PSOE); Left and Independent republicans and Basque and Catalan nationalists.
• gued for small mobile units of 20-30 men as
    the only viable tactic. The latter was undoubtedly the right policy. On three
    occasions when the Resistance in the South did mass for conventional warfare,
    on the Plateau of Glieres; at Vercors and at Mont Mouchet they were both heavily
    outnumbered and outgunned by the Germans. Spaniards participated in these
    actions, but had warned against them - knowing full well from the war against
    Franco that lightly armed troops could not engage in conventional warfare
    without armour, artillery and air support.
• In Normandy
    and Brittany, Spaniards blew up electrical transformers, a railway station
    and switching yard and part of an airfield. Spanish resistance fighters in
    Paris assassinated General von Schaumberg, commandant of Greater Paris and
    General von Ritter who was responsible for the recruitment of forced labour.
• It should also be remembered
    that Allied troops never entered the South of the country. The whole area
    west of the Rhone and South of the Loire rivers was liberated by the national
    insurrection of the Maquis, as also was Brittany, save for the Atlantic ports
    with their strong German garrisons
• Over 4,000 Spaniards took part in the Maquis uprising in Paris that began
    on August 21st 1944. Photographs show them armed and crouched behind barricades
    in scenes one could easily mistake for the street fighting in Barcelona in
    July 1936. Before long they were supported by regular troops from the Normandy
    beach-heads. The first units to enter Paris and reach the Hotel de Ville were
    from the 9th Tank Company of the French 2nd Armoured Division. But the lead
    half tracks bore the names of Spanish battlefields -"Guadalajara";
    "Teruel"; "Madrid" and "Ebro". They were manned
    by Spaniards, of whom there were 3,200 serving in the 2nd Armoured. Many of
    these were veterans of the 26th Division (Durruti Column) who had entered
    the French army from the prison camps in 1939 and gone on to fight in North
    Africa.
• The 9th Company featured prominently in the victory parade through Paris
    with its tanks drawn up at the Arc de Triomphe. They went on to see action
    on the Moselle and were the first to enter Strasbourg, supported by American
    infantry. Their campaign ended in Germany at Berchtesgaden, Hitler's "Eagles
    Nest". Having fought from the streets of Barcelona, across the battlefields
    of Spain, North Africa and France they stood as victors in the final bolt
    hole of the Nazi scum.
• De Gaulle feared for revolution in Toulouse
    where 6,000 Spanish guerrillas were "...still imbued with the revolutionary
    spirit they had brought from beyond the Pyrenees"
• In all 25,000 Spaniards had died in the camps or fighting in armed units.
• Between 1944 and 1950 approximately 15,000 guerrillas fought in Spain, bringing
    half the country into a state of war. But, despite strikes in Barcelona and
    the Basque areas, involving over 250,000 people, the population as a whole,
    wearied by war and repression, were not prepared to rise, or had placed their
    faith in the diplomacy of Western "democracies". The guerrillas
    were left to fight alone and inadequately armed against Franco's impressive
    police and military apparatus, which was always well supplied with intelligence
    on guerrilla movements from the other side of the French border. It was an
    unequal struggle.

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