The French Resistance (La Résistance française) was a collaboration of individual movements against the German occupation of France and the Vichy regime which submitted to the Nazis during the world war II. Starting in 1940 and continuing until the liberation of France, French people from all ends of the economic and political spectrum banded together in various Resistance groups to carry out guerrilla attacks, run clandestine newspapers, provide information to and from allies, and operate networks fleeing to the allies. territory for political enemies and others persecuted by the Nazis (Aubrac, 3). On June 14, 1940, the Germans occupied Paris, France, and three days later Philippe Pétain, a French World War I hero, assumed power from the current prime minister and declared an armistice (Northwest). On June 22, 1940, the second Franco-German armistice was signed near Compéigne, granting the Germans permission to occupy northern and western France. While the life of the French people continued without major differences, Pétain's cooperation with the Germans and the new Vichy government soon became an authoritarian regime. The new government's harsh rules and regulations left a minority disgruntled enough to band together and form a resistance movement (Northwest). The French people were required to finance the German occupation, leaving the French bankrupt and short of food, labor and resources. . Malnutrition afflicted the young, the elderly and the rest of the working class. Most of the workers were transferred to Germany under the German Service du TravailObligatoire (compulsory labor service) program, and many others were considered German (Northwest) prisoners of war. Copious amounts of pro-German propaganda, curfew laws and France's transition... half the paper... 6 stories of espionage, sabotage, resistance and rescue. Chicago Review Press. March 1, 2011. Web. January 14, 2012. Aubrac, Raymond and Lucie. The French Resistance: 1940-1944. Hazan Publishing.1997. Network. January 14, 2012. “Building the French Resistance Movement: 1940-1944.” Northwest Historical Association. Network. January 14, 2012. Crowded, Terry. French Resistance Fighter: The French Secret Army. Osprey Publishing.June 19, 2007. Web. January 14, 2012.Kedward, HR-occupied France, Collaboration and Resistance 1940-1944. Studies on historical associations. Blackwell Publishers. Network. January 14, 2012.Schoenbrun, David. Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance. Kate Sharpley Library. Network. January 14, 2012.Trueman, Chris. “The French Resistance”. Site for learning history. Network. January 142011.