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
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Bundes archives

[@georgebrown8312]

Thank you for the video commemorating the bravery of French people who stood against the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation of France. May these brave souls be remembered for all time.

[@MegaBloggs1]

you are awesome mate impeccable knowledge base

[@alan-gu6yc]

love watching your videos most interesting.

[@kerrydennison7947]

I would like for you to start doing more stories similar to this one human interest stories of the French people and how they stood up to the German terror. I purchase the book that you recommended in another video the secrets of D-Day very enlightening book.❤

[@mossbrg5]

Great videos. Thank you. Love that you’re actually at the locations where the history took place. It is always great to see Normandy.

[@WalkingDday]

Thanks for the appreciation.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Shit yeah.

[@bikenavbm1229]

thanks for doing all this, these stories of the French and their Allie helpers fighting and the risks they were taking knowing their potential end often completely alone, I really find it impossibly hard to comprehend the bravery of it. I do a little touring of Normandy etc occasionally and have an understanding of the work involved, so thank you very much for trying to help stop all this history fading away. Subscribed and will watch all the videos eventually.

[@carmensidari5288]

If going to visit Normandy, these videos will serve you well ! thank you

[@Chiller01]

Very interesting. How ingenious and courageous the Maqui were.

[@nicholaspatton1742]

Well done!Thank you for your efforts.

[@thomassmythe8258]

Thank you for this history. France thanks America for help during ww2 but sadly many Americans forget America wouldn’t exist without French help during our revolution.Also Degual told America we stand with you in 1962 problem with Cuba.

[@nickraschke4737]

Another wonderful informative film. Thanks.

[@olivercooney6645]

I've watched everyone of your videos I watch them while I build my model kits cant understand why you have such little subscribers you video's are fantastic how long does it take you to do a video including your editing time

[@bryandavies6074]

Thank you. Well researched.

[@steeltown1001]

Marathon, yes..well done. I live in France and it was a very interesting story 👍🏼

[@SurvivethePoleShift]

Colin do Normans still produce Calvados? I tried it in the 1970's when on leave from HMS DOLPHIN doing my Submarine Course [Oberons]...It was a magnificent drop as I recall...I did hear that in the 1980's or so, French Government put a stop to it's being manufactured and sold....I hope this is untrue...as I said, I found it very enjoyable.

[@SurvivethePoleShift]

We Aussies loved Scrumpy too so, not sure if I had good taste or not Lol... Again Colin, you're Vids are top drawer.

[@WalkingDday]

It’s still made in several industrial distilleries and many farm distilleries.. What was stopped was farmers having the right to make it without being declared officially officially. Two oficiallies. My wifes uncle had the right to distill because he was an Algerian war veteran. He still had to declare and pay the tax on it. Got into trouble sometimes due to too much « evaporation ». Along the road near Omaha beach there are two places. The farm of the Sapiniere, not to be confused with the restaurant. And Engeslqueville chateau, Mr Lebrec.

[@robertroy1435]

Great job

[@graciemurphy1]

New subscriber. Really enjoy your knowledgeable videos

[@Kimchiboy08]

Intense stories of human courage and daring. ✌️

[@pevanspe85]

Well done I really like your videos

[@WalkingDday]

Thanks for watching

[@jamesclayton1412]

Great video

[@napoexocet1366]

👍

[@kerrydennison7947]

You need to do an episode on how the resistance fighters were treated after France was liberated. I dare say it is one of the more shameful chapters in recent French history. Especially if you were not of Charles de gaulle's political party n supported him. If you read some of the history right after the Germans surrender. I remember where Winston Churchill and Truman was calling for free elections in all of the liberated countries both east and west and the fact that Joseph Stalin ask and bought it up as an example as to why the Communists did not allow free elections in the liberated Eastern countries mainly because the Allies did not allow a free election to be held in France. But when France did get around to having a free election Charles de Gaulle was out on his you remember the last 3 months before the Allies landing in France call Charles de Gaulle persuaded the Allies to stop and cut back the weapons drops to certain Marquee bands? Do Americans never did trust Charles de Gaulle mainly because he has a military officer fled France with his family in tow and then tried to push himself forward as the legal representative of a deposed French government. Now if he would have done like Joseph Tito of Yugoslavia and stayed behind with his people in faulty Nazi occupier sharing the same dangers and hardships then I think the Americans would have accepted him immediately.

[@WalkingDday]

Some good points, but if DeGaulle had stayed in France he would have been subordinate to the colaborator Petain.