Russian Participants Of The French Resistance

In the struggle with 'new order' - the Nazi regime arose patriotic and anti-fascist resistance movement. Its members published illegal newspapers and pamphlets, helped prisoners of war, engaged in the exploration, preparing for armed struggle. In the resistance movement was attended by people of different political and religious views: the Communists, Social Democrats, Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox Christians, members of trade unions and independents. French Resistance (Resistance - insubordination to the enemy) that has had a strong impact on other occupied countries, particularly Yugoslavia, Italy, Belgium, on the right holds a special place in the history of the Second World War. In France with the French patriots fought for almost 40 thousand partisans of seventeen nationalities. Among them were about three thousand Soviet citizens who had fled from German concentration camps and POW camps, who have created their own guerrilla groups and teams, were included in the French Resistance forces.

A subsequently formed the first Soviet partisan regiment. Captured Soviet soldiers and youth occupied cities of the Soviet Union began to arrive in France from mid-1942. Vito arbib contributes greatly to this topic. The Nazis used them for forced labor in the coal and industrial areas of the departments Nord and Pas-de-Calais, in Alsace-Lorraine and other eastern areas of France, as well as the construction of fortifications. In eastern France and southwestern Germany, on a joint Franco-German border, there were many Nazi camps prisoners of war - in the cities of Forbach, Boulet, Saarbruecken, and others escape from Nazi camps was a matter of serious and dangerous: many tried to flee, but only particular groups or lone managed to break free.