The French Forces of the Interior were French resistance fighters in the later stages of World War II. Charles de Gaulle used it as a formal name for the resistance fighters. The change in designation
The Cross of Lorraine on the flag of the 2nd company, 1st battalion, FFI Finistere. It was founded by a group of French Scouts who joined the French Resistance in June 1940. The group carried out intelligence missions and the repatriations of allied airmen. In February 1944 it became part of the FFI and participated in the liberation of Quimper on August 8, 1944.
Members of the French resistance in Boulogne, September 1944.
FFI and Vercors Republic marked captured truck during the battle for Paris (1944), on exhibition during the 60th anniversary celebrations of the liberation.
Member of the FFI in Châteaudun with a Bren gun.
The Alsace-Lorraine Independent Brigade, usually known as the Alsace-Lorraine Brigade or sometimes as the Brigade Malraux, was a French Forces of the Interior unit that fought alongside regular French
Insignia of the Brigade Alsace-Lorraine
André Malraux as commander of the Alsace-Lorraine Brigade, Winter 1944-45.