France: Anti-German resistance groups (1940-1944)

Last modified: 2002-01-18 by ivan sache
Keywords: cross of lorraine | resistance | forces francaises de l'interieur | ffi | armband |
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• Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur
• Ukrainian maquis

See also:

• France
• France: Historical flags
• France: Historical chronology since 1792
• Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres) (1940-1944)
• Etat Français, Vichy governement (1940-1944)

Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur (FFI)

by Ivan Sache

An armband of the Forces françaises de l'Interieur, preserved in Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération in Paris, is made of a tricolor flag with a blue Lorraine cross and the letters FFI in the white stripe.

Ivan Sache, 20 August 2000

Ukrainian maquis

by Ivan Sache

An armband of a Ukrainian resistance group, preserved in Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération in Paris, shows a diagonal yellow stripe in the blue stripe recalling the Ukrainian traditional colours.

Ivan Sache, 20 August 2000