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2 unusual facts about resistance during World War II


Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth

Park was promoted to the rank of sergeant and trained groups of operatives for Operation Jedburgh whose task was to support the Resistance in Europe.

Pimelles

During World War II, La Grange-Aux-Moines, a dependency of Pimelles, served as one of the headquarters of an element of the Yonne Resistance Movement.


Estonian anti-German resistance movement 1941–44

The Estonian resistance movement (Estonian Eesti vastupanuliikumine) was an underground movement to resist the occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany, 1941–1944 during World War II.

Freedom Radio

It is set in Nazi Germany during the Second World War and concerns an underground German resistance group who run a radio station broadcasting against the totalitarian Third Reich.

Municipality of Cerkno

After the Italian armistice in September 1943, Cerkno was liberated by the Yugoslav Partisans and the region became one of the most important centres of Partisan resistance in the Slovenian Littoral.

World War II political cartoons

In contrast to official government-sponsored propaganda, German-occupied Europe also produced resistance cartoons mocking the new order.


see also

Allégret

Émile Allegret, a French soldier and member of the French Resistance during World War II

Blindness in literature

French author Jacques Lusseyran, who was visually impaired at the age of 7 when he injured his eyes on the sharp corner of a teacher's desk, became part of the French resistance during World War II.