resistance
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1940
1941
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1943
January
February
March
April
- 19
- Key eventThe Warsaw Ghetto Uprising beginsOn 19 April 1943, the eve of Passover, ŻOB and ŻZW fighters drove back the Germans entering the Warsaw Ghetto. They soon returned under Jürgen Stroop.
- The attack on the Twentieth Convoy from MechelenOn 19 April 1943 three young Belgians with one pistol stopped a train taking Jews to Auschwitz near Boortmeerbeek. More than 230 people escaped.
May
- 15
- The founding of the National Council of the ResistanceOn 15 May 1943 London announced the National Council of the Resistance, in which Jean Moulin united underground movements, unions and parties under de Gaulle.
- Case BlackOn 15 May 1943 Germany and its allies launched Case Black, the fifth offensive against Tito's Partisans in Montenegro, also aimed at the Chetniks.
June
July
August
September
October
November
- 09
- De Gaulle becomes sole President of the CFLNOn 9 November 1943 de Gaulle reshaped the Committee of National Liberation. Giraud left it, remaining only Commander-in-Chief of the French army.
- The fake Le SoirOn 9 November 1943 the Belgian underground distributed in Brussels a fake issue of the collaborationist Le Soir, mocking German defeats in the east.
December
1944
February
March
June
- 10
- The Oradour-sur-Glane massacreOn 10 June 1944 a company of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich murdered 642 people at Oradour-sur-Glane near Limoges and burned the village.
- The Distomo massacreOn 10 June 1944 troops of the 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division murdered 218 inhabitants of the Greek village of Distomo and burned it down.
July
August
- 04
- The liberation of FlorenceOn 4 August 1944 New Zealanders and South Africans entered southern Florence. Overnight the Germans blew the Arno bridges; only the Ponte Vecchio survived.
- The liberation of RennesOn 4 August 1944 the US 8th Infantry Division entered Rennes, abandoned by the Germans overnight, as Patton's Third Army spread across Brittany.
September
- 03
- The liberation of BrusselsOn the evening of 3 September 1944 tanks of the British Guards Armoured Division drove into Brussels. The Americans had entered Belgium the day before.
- The liberation of LyonOn 3 September 1944 the 1st Free French Division, Americans and the FFI entered Lyon. The Germans had left the day before, blowing the Rhône and Saône bridges.
October
- 02
- Key eventThe surrender of the Warsaw UprisingOn 2 October 1944 an agreement ending the Warsaw Uprising was signed at Ożarów. The Home Army received combatant rights; the city's people were expelled.
- The Allies in Crete and the PeloponneseIn autumn 1944 the British entered Patras and Corinth, while the Germans on Crete fell back around Chania, where they held out until May 1945.