What happened in France during World War 2?
For the rest of the war the French military activities were restricted to the resistance and the “Free French.” There were several networks of resistance, some of whom did things like assassination and sabotage and others were more like spies, focusing on getting intelligence on the Germans to provide to England & the Allies. The Free French were an army of French people who gathered in exile (mostly England) under general De Gaulle, a French general who went to England after being fired from the French army for refusing to accept the armistice. These “Free French” formed themselves into an army that was equipped and armed by Great Britain and the U.S., and participated in D-Day and the liberation of France.
