Maquis de Vabre Maquis de Vabre The Maquis de Vabre were an organisation of French Resistance fighters in the east of the Tarn department during the Second World War, which was gradually built up by local militants. They were officially recognised in December 1943, affiliated to the Armée secrète under the name "Maquis Pol Roux" (its original organiser, Guy de Rouville, had the codename "Pol Roux". Approximately 450 maquis fighters were enrolled, organised, trained and armed in anticipation of the allied landings. Within the framework of the Mouvements unis de la Résistance, the Maquis de Vabre became the "Corps franc de la libération
Anti-partisan operations in World War II and August, Germans launched their largest operations against the French partisans (Maquis du Vercors). Similar to the "cauldron operations" employed in the Soviet Union, 10,000 German troops encircled and destroyed a 4,000 strong local partisan force, also committing atrocities against the local civilian population, in order to terrorize the locals and to prevent the surviving partisans from regrouping in the villages. Anti-partisan operations in World War II Anti-partisan operations during World War II were counter-insurgency operations against the various partisan resistance movements. During World War II those operations were primarily carried out by the invading and occupying Axis powers, although