How useful was the French resistance in WWII?

>>2292031
It only was after the war ended since everybody could claim not to have collaborated.

They did a good job cleaning themselves up after war and shaving women's hair for allegedly sleeping with Germans.

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>>2292052
>allegedly sleeping with Germans.

>>2292066
It must have took a lot of resistance to give birth to all these Krauts.

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>>2292031
Meme-tier edgelords who came out of hiding after the fighting men of America and the Commonwealth did all the hard work and just went around bullying people, shaving women's heads, and acting like they owned the place basically.

>>2292066
Completely bullshit figure with no evidence

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>>2292066
Dude literally wrote it himself on MS Word
Not sure why he thnks this constitutes an evidence

Pic related on the other hand is sourced and real
German troops werent allowed to sleep with French women
Some may have disrespected the rule but it certainly didnt happen en mass

>>2292066
>"""historians estimate"""

>>2292031
It used to be overestimated but nowadays the opposite is happening for some reason.

They were quite useful in collecting intelligence for the Allies and sabotage (of railroads for example). Not so much in open warfare, as the Vercors showed. They weren't career soldiers or well equiped though so it should not pe surprising.

That said their contribution to D Day was massive. In particular they particularly slowed down Germans reinforcement in the critical first days by blowing up bridges and stuff and cutting telephone poles, to the point that some massacres against the civilian population occured in reprisal (like at Oradour).

Their numbers swelled massively when the Germans fell back because many who until then had sat on the sidelines saw the chance to back the winning side.

Their resistance was made of every political affililiation on the spectrum (plus lot of communists after Barbarossa). The far right "patriots" meanwhile created the Milice to fight them since their true ennemy wasn't Germany (which they saw as the saviour of Europe) but Soviet Russia.

So no Yugoslavian resistance but not useless either.

>>2292031

There's an Open Yale course on modern French history that's pretty good. The two lectures on Vichy France and the resistance are worth a listen.

http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-276/lecture-18
http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-276/lecture-19

Their women were certainly useful

Tito > Charles de Gaulle