---
title: "WW2 resistance groups"
description: "During the Second World War, people rose to resist the brutal German oppression, often at the risk of their own lives, they joined the resistance"
url: "https://www.normandy1944.info/stories/resistance/ww2-resistance-groups"
date: "2026-11-13T22:00:52+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  WW2 resistance groups

Organized resistance groups resisted the policy of the occupier during the war. They sabotaged telephone lines, blew up buildings and railways, make areas unusable by submerging them and spying. There was also a less violent part of the resistance: helping Jews to go into hiding, smuggling ration coupons and falsifing identification papers. In the last years of the occupation, the violence became increasingly grim. Resistance fighters would also execute Germans soldiers, officials and collaborators.

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