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Resistance during World War II occured in every occupied country by a variety of means like sabotage, propaganda, disinformation, hiding refugees and aiding the other side (like helping stranded pilots).
- Albanian resistance movement
- Dutch resistance movement in World War II
- German resistance movements in World War II:
- The White Rose
- The Red Orchestra, which included the only American executed by the Nazis for belonging to an anti-Nazi organization.
- Greek resistance movement -- opposed German and Italian occupying forces in World War II
- Polish resistance movements:
- Armia Krajowa (the Home Army), Polish underground army in World War II (400 000 sworn members)
- Gwardia Ludowa (the Peoples' Guard) and Armia Ludowa (the Peoples' Army)
- Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB, the Jewish Fighting Organisation), Jewish resistance movement that led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943
- Zydowski Zwiazek Walki (ZZW, the Jewish Fighting Union), Jewish resistance movement that led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943
- The French resistance movement in World War II, including the Maquis
- Norwegian resistance movement in World War II
- Danish resistance movement in World War II
- Italian resistance movement in World War II
- Yugoslav resistance movements:
- People's Liberation Army – the partisans
- Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland aka Chetniks
- Czech Resistance movement
- Philippine resistance movement -- the anti-Japanese phase of the Huk movement
- Slovak resistance movement
- Romanian anti-communist resistance movement - during the Soviet occupation of Romania (continued after the end of WWII).
- Soviet resistance movement of underground and partisan operatives, which had Moscow-organized and spontaneously formed cells opposing Fascism
- Ukrainian Insurgent Army - fought the Poles, the Germans and the Soviets.
- Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian ("Forest brothers") resistance movements during the Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltic countries (continued after the end of WWII).
Planned resistance movements:
- The Auxiliary Units, organized by Colonel Colin Gubbins as a potential British resistance movement against a possible successful invasion of the British Isles by Nazi forces.
Notable individuals (anti-Nazi, anti-Fascist)
See also
- Quotes about resistance
- Special Operations Executive
- Polish Secret State
- Edmund Charaszkiewicz
- Collaboration (the opposite of resistance)
- Covert cell
- List of guerrillas