Apart from the sabotage of railways and telegraph lines, the French resistance (FFI or French Forces of the Interior) also attempted to ambush German troops moving to Normandy after D-Day. This sometimes provoked savage reprisals against French civilians: a massacre at Oradour sur Glane was carried out by troops from the 2nd SS Panzer Division soon after the incidents mentioned in the document shown here. This extract from a report by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) is part of a series of documents (HS 7) held at The National Archives containing SOE reports on underground activity in France.
