Photos Partisans

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Dutch Resistance members celebrate the news of Adolf Hitler’s death:

 

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Dutch resistance fighters in Winterswijk after it's liberation by British forces, The Netherlands 31 March 1945:

Meeting between a Dutch resistance fighters, Netherlands, 1944:

Dutch resistance fighters round up Nazi collaborators, April 19th, 1945:

Dutch resistance members posing with a collaborator in the courtyard of a prison in Amsterdam, Netherlands, May of 1945:

Dutch civilians and local resistance help pin point locations on a map for American Paratroopers of the 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division, outside of Eindhoven, Netherlands. September 1944:

Dutch resistance workers relaxing with two German soldiers that helped them to hide 80 people for the Nazi's, Blaricum, 1943, The Netherlands:

Members of the Dutch resistance guides American soldiers of the 38th Infantry, 7th Armored Division behind German lines in Neerkant, the Netherlands, 16 October 1944:

Dutch resistance fighters:

 

[uktabber]

GREAT Photos of another aspect of WWII we don't see much.....THANKS for sharing!!!

 

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Yugoslavia, railroad tracks destroyed by retreating Germans with a “Schwellenpflug” railroad plough in 1945, the tracks were rapidly repaired by civilian teams making sleepers from nearby forests and reusing the spikes, etc;

 

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Polish resistance fighter with a Polish Blyskawica SMG.

 

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Members of the Polish Armia Krajowa / Home Army with some SS prisoners among the 121 Germans this group captured during the course of the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944.
The most interesting thing about this photo is the "Blyskawica"held by the insurgent on the left....a Polish machine-pistol designed and produced in secret in German-occupied Poland for use by the Home Army.
The gun was a curious fusion of features from the British Sten and German MP40.
It was made clandestinely in small workshops which lacked sophisticated tooling so the design was very crude and basic...but it worked.
See the supplementary image below.
(Warsaw Rising Museum)

 

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An SdkfZ 251 Ausf. D formerly of the 5th SS Viking Division but now in the hands of Polish insurgents of the 8th "Krybar" Regiment during the Warsaw uprising of August 1944.
It was photographed on Tamka Street, August 14th.
The insurgent commander armed with the captured MP-40 is identified as Adam Dewicz, known to his men as "Grey Wolf". The half-track was also named "Grey Wolf" in his honour.
Note the large red/white Polish national flag.
The insurgents ensured that they were clearly identified by wearing red/white armands and / or red/white helmet bands.
The fate of these men is not known...but I suspect it was not good.

 

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Czech resistance fighters ride trimphantly through Prague on an SU-76 of the Red Army, March 1945.
Unfortunately, they had just shaken off one form of tyranny only to have it replaced by another.
(LIFE Collections)

 

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Czech resistance fighters ride trimphantly through Prague on an SU-76 of the Red Army, March 1945.
Unfortunately, they had just shaken off one form of tyranny only to have it replaced by another.
(LIFE Collections)

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..............And that's an understatement!! If they only knew what was coming to overtake them.

 

[Jake84]

One of French resistance leader Jean Moulin.



Moulin, born and raised in the south of France, was Prefect of Chartres at the time of the Nazi invasion in 1940. When he was relieved of his functions, he decided to flee to London and joined Charles de Gaulle, leader-in-exile of Free France. De Gaulle, unable to unify to the multitude of fractious resistance groups who had trouble collaborating with each other, asked Moulin to become his ambassador and head of the French domestic resistance within Vichy and Nazi-occupied France. Moulin is credited with bringing unity to the French Resistance and giving credence to De Gaulle as their leader. He succeeded and was able to form a National Resistance Board that met in a villa in Caluire, France in 1943. Weeks later, he was arrested when the Gestapo raided the villa. He was tortured by the infamous Klaus Barbie in Lyon and then sent to his death supposedly without giving away any information about underground Resistance activities.


***Personal notes from me from memory regarding Jean Moulins circumstances and details of death:

I got to talk to a French historian many years ago, who had gruesome details about his passing while being « interrogated » by the Gestapo.

He was heavily and brutally tortured, while refusing to give a single name of any French resistance member. According to the historian, almost every of his bones were crushed by the gestapo until he was put a pen in his mouth to write the names of his anti-nazi comrades and peers; eventually he died from what I am certain was a slow and intensely painful death.

 

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Had partisans after WWII?

 

[SamWell]

Had partisans after WWII?

You want it,you got it

 

[Connaught Ranger]

You want it,you got it
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Camilo Cienfuegos and Fidel Castro enter Havana, Cuba on 8 January 1959 after their victory over the forces of dictator Fulgencio Batista. Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty Images

Hardly Partisans, the traditional definition being those who stay behind to fight an invader, in the rear areas or behind the immediate front lines.

 

[SamWell]

Camilo Cienfuegos and Fidel Castro enter Havana, Cuba on 8 January 1959 after their victory over the forces of dictator Fulgencio Batista. Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty Images

Hardly Partisans, the traditional definition being those who stay behind to fight an invader, in the rear areas or behind the immediate front lines.

Not clearly an invader but enemy.Partisans are also can be anti-goverment forces who use guerilla warfare and tactic.

 

[Connaught Ranger]

Not clearly an invader but enemy. Partisans are also can be anti-goverment forces who use guerilla warfare and tactic.

= to terrorists.

 

[morris]

= to terrorists.

Italian fascists used to call Italian partisans terrorists.

 

[BravoZulu]

Today in 1943, Jews in the Warsaw ghetto rise up against the SS. Although the Nazis crackdown ruthlessly, the resistance holds out for 27 days. "We knew we were going to die," said one organizer. "We fought simply not to allow the Germans to pick the time and place of our deaths"

13,000 Jews were killed, 50,000 residents were captured and shipped to concentration camps.

 

[SamWell]

= to terrorists.

You know,terrorism as a term has a various different definitions, with no universal agreement about it.But usually implied using violence during peacetime or actions against against non-combatants,

 

[keparti]

But usually implied using violence during peacetime or actions against against non-combatants,

Soviet partisans carried out 45 strikes against civilian villages/random sole civilians they came across in Finland, killing 181 civilians, which would definitely fall into this category.

 

[SamWell]

Soviet partisans carried out 45 strikes against civilian villages/random sole civilians they came across in Finland, killing 181 civilians, which would definitely fall into this category.

Soviet partisans never attacked completely peaceful settlements, but they carried out attacks on settlements where finnish troops were stationed,and where supply and storage bases were located.And yes there was a civilian cassualites
And of course what exactly is the civilian villages in the conditions of the Second World War is up to debate.