Quel est le rôle des maquisards ?
Le premier rôle des maquis était de protéger des personnes recherchées : des réfractaires au STO, des juifs, des prisonniers de guerre évadés, des militaires parachutés, … Beaucoup de maquisards furent impatients de passer à l’action et libérer le pays.
Qui protège les maquisards ?
Au début de l’année 1944, des compagnies de la Wehrmacht se spécialisent dans la lutte contre les maquis dans les régions les plus exposées à leurs actions de guérilla. Ils coopèrent avec la Milice française, notamment contre le maquis des Glières et s’acharnent contre certains villages.
What does maquisards mean in history?
- Meaning. Members of those bands were called maquisards. Their image was a committed and voluntary fighter, a combattant, as opposed to the previous réfractaire (« unmanageable »). The term became an honorific meaning « armed resistance fighter ». The maquis came to symbolize the French Resistance.
What does prendre le Maquis mean?
- In Corsica, the saying Prendre le maquis ‘to go into the bush’ is used to describe someone who leaves the village in order to live in the bush, biding time to seek revenge, or are being pursued by people with and intent to arrest or kill.
What is the difference between garrigue and Maquis?
- The Italian-derived word » maquis » is commonly used to describe woods and scrubland on the island, and evokes an all-encompassing image of woods and mountains, whereas the more limited word » garrigue » used in the south of France indicated […] an inhospitable terrain, and the words » bois » (‘wood’),…
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How did the US help the Maquis?
- The British Special Operations Executive (SOE) helped the Maquis with supplies and agents. The American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) also began to send its own agents to France in cooperation with the SOE and the French BCRA agents, as part of Operation Jedburgh.
