They Fought Alone by Charles Glass

Author:Charles Glass
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2018-09-10T16:00:00+00:00

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On June 9, George’s region went quiet. Das Reich was preoccupied farther north with other maquis groups, and the decisive battle raged five hundred miles away in Normandy. “After the first two or three days of enthusiasm were over, the men became terribly bored,” recalled Anne-Marie Walters. “They had nothing to do all day: the Germans were scattered at great distances from Castelnau and expeditions were rare.”

Philippe de Gunzbourg wrote that some maquis groups, particularly the communists, were attempting to conquer and control territory, as at Tulle: “The tactic of grouping, protecting and defending did not work,” he wrote, calling the policy “weak and bad.” The Resistance’s basic strategy of destroying German infrastructure and ambushing units on their way to Normandy was working. Yet General Eisenhower’s SHAEF reduced parachutages to the guerrillas. Gunzbourg feared that the Allied command was losing faith in the Resistance. In fact, it was trying to save French civilians from German retribution. General Pierre Koenig, commander of the FFI, ordered his representatives in France, the Délégués Militaires de Region (Regional Military Delegates) to reduce their attacks:

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