Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan Operation Barbarossa da kuma Allies'saukowa a Arewacin Afrika
, Marshal Philippe Pétain, shugaban sabuwar "Faransa ta Faransa" (Jam'iyyar Vichy) wacce ta maye gurbin Jamhuriyar Faransa ta Uku, ta ga "mummunan iska tana gabatowa". ("le mauvais vent s'approche"). Resistance ya fara fara shirya kansa a cikin 1942-1943. A halin yanzu, 'yan sandan Faransa, a ƙarƙashin umurnin René Bousquet da mataimakinsa, Jean Leguay, sun ƙara jerin sunayen da Gestapo ta tsara (kwaminisanci, freemasons, Yahudawa, da anarchists).