[Sherman Logan]

You have anything resembling evidence the Liberators were effective against the Germany Army? Did they drive them out of France? Did they even seriously impede their operations?

I seem to recall the French Resistance being pretty ineffective militarily, even when using weapons considerably more powerful.

In fact, I believe a rather large actual army, several in fact, was required to defeat the German Army.

[Lazamataz]

I seem to recall the French Resistance being pretty ineffective militarily, even when using weapons considerably more powerful.

Oh, okay. Well, you will need to tell a lot of people and authors. These researchers and historians are sadly mistaken, and you need to let them know!

Just a few quick examples for you to get busy on:

• This educational (www.historylearningsite.co.uk) website needs to come down. The French Resistance played a vital part in aiding the Allies to success in Western Europe

• Oh, and this one (www.worldwar2-wwii.com) ....There is no doubt that [the French Resistance] was a moral as well as a material force that contributed to the eventual defeat of the Germans.

• And WikiPedia, they messed up too: The French Résistance played a significant role in facilitating the Allies' rapid advance through France following the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, and the lesser-known invasion of Provence on 15 August, by providing military intelligence on the German defenses known as the Atlantic Wall and on Wehrmacht deployments and orders of battle. The Résistance also planned, coordinated, and executed acts of sabotage on the electrical power grid, transportation facilities, and telecommunications networks.[4][5] It was also politically and morally important to France, both during the German occupation and for decades afterward, because it provided the country with an inspiring example of the patriotic fulfillment of a national imperative, countering an existential threat to French nationhood. [6][7]

• New Zealand is wrong, too.....An estimated 500,000 French men and women worked for the Resistance during Germany’s occupation of France. Resistance workers carried out thousands of acts of sabotage against the German occupiers. The risks were great. More than 90,000 resisters were killed, tortured or deported by the Germans. They also gathered intelligence and helped Allied airmen and prisoners of war escape the country, risking their lives to save the young strangers. New Zealanders were among those helped to safety by the Resistance.

Thank God you are here to set everyone straight!

[CodeToad]

“Did they even seriously impede their operations?”

Yes, they did. The Normandy invasion didn’t meet enough resistance to stop it because the French ensured the Germans were delayed. To be dismissive of the French Resistance is trivializing their lives lost for the affects they did have and we were grateful to have had.