"Meet the Francs-tireurs – The French Resistance of 1870" Topic
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Tango01 | 20 Feb 2017 12:16 p.m. PST |
"THE GERMAN MILITARY invades France. In just a few weeks it cuts off, encircles and destroyed almost the whole of the French army. Soon Paris is surrounded. It falls to the invaders. Then something unexpected happens. The occupiers, believing that the war is won, suddenly find themselves facing a new threat – an insurgency. As if out of no where, a vast underground resistance movement materializes. It avoids open battle, favouring ambush, sabotage and hit and run tactics instead. Overwhelmed by the persistence of these shadowy guerrillas, the occupiers retaliate through a campaign of terror against the civilian population. Yet in spite of the savage reprisals, the insurgents' raids only intensify and continue right up until the day the invaders withdraw from France entirely. Although this may sound a lot like a description of the French Underground in the Second World War, it's also the story of the francs-tireurs or "free shooters" of the Franco Prussian War of 1870 and 1871. While the exploits of the resistance of World War Two have become the stuff of legend, history often forgets that French guerrillas mounted their own resistance campaign against German occupiers a full 70 years before the Nazi Blitzkrieg…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Jcfrog | 21 Feb 2017 3:29 p.m. PST |
Hummm. Not really. Most were a sort of Freikorps types, fighting petite guerre on a more regular type of battles than what is here described. No, or not much clandestine stuff and very little efficiency at breaking LOC or forcing the Germans to spread out their forces on their streched out L.O.C./MSR Chateaudun fight was done by a conglomerate of them plus local gardes mobiles er sédentaires, all fully condonned troops by the government and under regular command. Think more of semi irregular skirmishers than guerillas. Btw most of them had a sort of uniform. No one in power really wants the fight to go into uncontrolled hands. Politics. It did not mean the Germans always respected them as " regular" fighters. |
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