Maquis (World War II) advanced, the French Resistance rose against the Nazi occupation forces and their garrisons en masse. For example, Nancy Wake's group of 7,000 maquisards was involved in a pitched battle with 22,000 Germans on June 20, 1944. Some Maquis groups took no prisoners so some German soldiers preferred to surrender to Allied soldiers instead of facing maquisards. The Allied offensive was slowed and the Germans were able to counterattack in southeast France. On the Vercors Massif, the Maquis du Vercors rose up with some 4000 soldiers against the German occupiers, but was defeated with 600 casualties. When General De Gaulle dismissed
Tuva in World War II training personnel. The middle and top commanders of the Tuva People’s Revolutionary Army were trained in military schools of the USSR, including the M.V. Frunze Military Academy and the Academy of the General Staff. In addition, Soviet military instructors and advisers were invited to Tuva. Tuva in World War II The Tuvan People’s Republic entered World War II on the side of the countries of the Anti-Hitler Coalition on June 22, 1941, simultaneously with the outbreak of World War II. The Tuva volunteer forces took part in the battles on the eastern front as part of the formations of the