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Originally Posted by AussieNick It can be seen as true that resistance groups don't resist, they annoy and assist others to fight. The French Resistance didn't do a great deal of damage to the Germans, but they annoyed the hell out of them, however they did have an ancillary support role to allied forces eg. SOE, downed airmen and escaped POWs. |
That, and sabotage, was the major task of all resistance groups in any of the occupied countries in europe during the war, at least the ones who had any source of contact with the allies.
The exception from this was the Russian and Yoguslav partisans.
Except from obvious important tasks like rescuing downed aircrews and POW's the Norwegian resistance had to get clearance from London before they went into any sort of action.
The civilian lack of cooperation with the nazi's was spontaneous though.
I suppose every Norwegian had a grandfather or other relative involved in the resistance at some point, I even know a guy whose grandfather was active in the resistance while his uncle was fighting with the Germans on the eastern front...