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In many countries, resistance movements were sometimes also referred to as The Underground. The resistance movements in World War II can be broken down into two primary politically polarized camps: the internationalist and usually Communist Party-led anti-fascist resistance that existed in nearly every country in the world; and
Resistance during World War II was mainly dedicated to fighting the Axis occupiers. Germany itself also had an anti-Nazi Hitler, German resistance movement in this period. Although the United Kingdom did not suffer invasion in World War II, preparations were made for a British resistance movement in the event of a German invasion (see Auxiliary ...
World War II Resistance movements in various countries, many sponsored by the Allied governments: Soviet partisans in the Axis-occupied territories during World War II; Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) – Greece; Freies Deutschland – German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Germany (East Prussia, Cologne)
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The anti-Soviet resistance movements in the Baltic states, known as the Latvian or Lithuanian partisans, (established before the Soviet re-occupation in 1944), and local self-defence units often came into conflict with Soviet partisan groups. In Estonia and Latvia, almost all the Soviet partisan units, dropped by air, were either destroyed by ...
For a time in 1942–1943, there were two rival leaders of the Free French movement in exile: General Giraud, backed by the United States, and General de Gaulle, backed by Great Britain. [48] For these reasons, the ORA had bad relations with the Gaullist resistance while being favored by the OSS , as the Americans did not want de Gaulle as ...