During World War II, resistance movements operated in German-occupied Europe by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation to propaganda, hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns. In many countries, resistance movements were sometimes also referred to as The Underground.
The first partisan of World War II Hubal and his unit in Poland in winter 1939
A 1941 Soviet poster, inviting disruption of the enemy rear and active resistance at the German-occupied territories
Belorussia, 1943. A Jewish partisan group of the Chkalov Brigade.
Italy, 1943. Italian partisans celebrating the liberation of Naples.
Partisan (military)
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A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity.
Simone Segouin, a French partisan credited with capturing 25 German soldiers in the Chartres area, poses with an MP 40 submachine gun, 23 August 1944
Yugoslav partisan Stjepan Filipović shouting "Death to fascism, freedom to the people!" moments before his execution in German-occupied Valjevo
Adolfas Ramanauskas ("Vanagas"), commander of the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters