-
rural guerrilla bands of
French and
Belgian Resistance fighters,
called maquisards,
during World War II. Initially, they were
composed of young,
mostly working-class...
- to 10,000
German soldiers invaded the m****if and
killed more than 600
maquisards and 200 civilians. It was Germany's
largest anti-partisan
operation in...
-
killings of the
maquisards. They
hoped that they
could annihilate all of
their enemies before the
Allies won. For
their part, some of the
maquisards struck back...
- representative,
persuaded the
other staff members to
regroup the
majority of
maquisards on the Glières Plateau, to
establish a base to
attack the
Germans and...
- born to
Angolan parents. He was the
frontman of his
bands Festival des
Maquisards and
African All Stars.
Mangwana was a
member of François
Luambo Makiadi's...
-
Maquisards (Resistance fighters) in the Hautes-Alpes département in
August 1944. SOE
agents are
second from right,
possibly Christine Granville, third...
- 1944 with
about 3,000 men and
using aviation and
armoured units. The
maquisards fought back fiercely.
Little information is
available on the
German forces...
-
there was an
unofficial amnesty for
those released convicts who had been
maquisards.
Their previous sentences were not remitted, but as long as they refrained...
-
areas were out of the
German military's
control and free
zones for the
maquisards, so-called
after the
maquis shrubland that
provided ideal terrain for...
- The
Limousin po****tion paid a
heavy toll for its resistance.
Numerous maquisards were killed, executed,
tortured or deported.
Following the
Normandy landings...
