Resistance During World War II - Resistance Movements During World War II

Resistance Movements During World War II

• British resistance movement
  • Auxiliary Units (planned British resistance movement against German invaders)
• Albanian resistance movement
  • National Liberation Movement
  • Balli Kombëtar (anti-Italian and later anti-communist and anti-Yugoslav resistance movement)
• Austrian resistance movement, e.g. O5
• Belarusian resistance movement
  • Chorny Kot (anti-communist)
• Belgian Resistance
• Bulgarian resistance movement
• Goryani - Bulgarian anti-communist resistance
• Burmese resistance movement (AFPFL – Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League)
• Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian anti-Soviet resistance movements ("Forest Brothers")
• Chechen resistance (anti-Soviet)
• Czech resistance movement
• Danish resistance movement
• Dutch resistance movement
  • Valkenburg resistance
• Estonian resistance movement
• French resistance movement
  • Maquis
  • Francs-tireurs et Partisans (FTP)
  • French Forces of the Interior (FFI)
  • Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR)
  • Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action (BCRA)
  • Free French Forces (FFL)
• German anti-Nazi resistance movement
  • White Rose
  • Red Orchestra
  • Edelweiss Pirates
  • European Union
  • Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group
  • Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization
  • Kreisau Circle
  • Solf Circle
  • Confessing Church
  • Robert Uhrig Group
  • Neu Beginnen
  • Ehrenfeld Group
  • Vierergruppen in Hamburg, Munich and Vienna
  • Uncle Emile group
• The Stijkel Group, a Dutch resistance movement, which mainly operated around the S-Gravenhage area.
• Werwolf, the Nazi resistance against the Allied occupation
• Greek Resistance
  • List of Greek Resistance organizations
  • Cretan resistance
  • National Liberation Front (EAM) and the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), EAM's guerrilla forces
  • National Republican Greek League (EDES)
  • National and Social Liberation (EKKA)
• Chinese resistance movements
  • Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army
  • Anti-Japanese Army For The Salvation Of The Country
  • Chinese People's National Salvation Army
  • Heilungkiang National Salvation Army
  • Jilin Self-Defence Army
  • Northeast Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army
  • Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army
  • Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army
  • Northeastern Loyal and Brave Army
  • Northeastern People's Revolutionary Army
  • Northeastern Volunteer Righteous & Brave Fighters
• Hong Kong resistance movements
  • Gangjiu dadui (Hong Kong-Kowloon big army)
  • Dongjiang Guerrillas (East River Guerrillas, Southern China and Hong Kong organisation)
• Indian resistance movements:
  • Quit India Movement, largely Non-violent anti-British resistance within Indian territory
  • Indian National Army, pro-Japanese force fighting against Allied forces in SE Asia and along India's eastern-most borderlands
• Italian resistance movement
  • Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale
• Italian resistance against Allies in East-Africa
• Jewish resistance under Nazi rule
  • Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB, the Jewish Fighting Organisation)
  • Zydowski Zwiazek Walki (ZZW, the Jewish Fighting Union)
• Korea resistance movement
  • Korean Liberation Army
  • Korean Volunteer Army
• Latvian resistance movement
• Lithuanian resistance during World War II
  • Lithuanian Activist Front
  • Lithuanian Freedom Army
• Luxembourgish resistance during World War II
• Malayan resistance movemment
• Norwegian resistance movement
  • Milorg
  • XU
  • Norwegian Independent Company 1 (Kompani Linge)
  • Nortraship
  • Osvald Group
• Philippine resistance movement
  • Allied guerrillas ( composed of unsurrendered USAFFE troops including Filipino civilians ).
  • Hukbalahap
• Polish resistance movement
  • Armia Krajowa (the Home Army—main stream: Authoritarian/Western Democracy)
  • Cursed soldiers (anti-communist)
  • Narodowe Siły Zbrojne (National Armed Forces - Anti-Nazi, Anti-Communist)
  • Bataliony Chłopskie (Farmers' Battalions—main stream, apolitical, stress on private property)
  • Armia Ludowa (the Peoples' Army—Soviet Proxies)
  • Gwardia Ludowa (the Peoples' Guard—Soviet Proxies)
  • Gwardia Ludowa WRN (The Peoples' Guard Freedom Euqailty Independence—main stream; Polish Socialist Party's underground; progressive, anti—nazi and anti—Soviet; believed firmly in private property; believed in Marx's critique of the Capitalist system, but rejected his solution)
  • Leśni (Forest People—various)
  • Polish Secret State
• Romanian resistance movement (anti-communist)
• Singaporean resistance movement
  • Dalforce
  • Force 136
• Slovak resistance movement
• Soviet resistance movement
• Thai resistance movement
• Ukrainian Insurgent Army (anti-German, anti-Soviet and anti-Polish resistance movement)
• Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army (anti-German, anti-Soviet and anti-Polish resistance movement)
• Viet Minh (Vietnamese resistance organization that had fought Vichy France and the Japanese, and later against French attempt to re-occupy Vietnam)
• Yugoslavia
  • Chetniks (Serbian nationalist and royalist resistance and the first organized resistance movement in Europe. They initially engaged in some marginal resistance activities for limited periods, particularly early in the war. However, partially as a result of German reprisals whose policy it was, as part of their general policy throughout Easern Europe, that 100 Serbs would be killed for every 1 German soldier killed, and partially out of a desire to create an ethnically homogenous 'Greater Serbia', the Chetniks remained mostly inactive against the occupiers and gradually entered into collaboration agreements with them. This collaboration occurred firstly with the Nazi quisling Government of National Salvation and Fascist Italy. After the capitulation of Italy in September 1943, many Chetnik units began to collaborate directly with the Germans, and some units even collaborated with the Ustashe. The level of collaboration between the Chetniks and the occupying powers reached "extensive and systematic" proportions.
  • Yugoslav Partisans (communist-led resistance) fought thorough out the war against fascists (German, Italian, Hungarian, Ustasha, Chetnik troops)