According to J. Delarue, Tulle was defended by a garrison of seven hundred men of the 3rd battalion of the of the Wehrmacht, which had to be supplemented by six or seven hundred men of the Mobile Reserve Group and the French Militia; B. Kartheuser estimates that the staff of the 95th Security Regiment included 289 men coming from the 8th and 13th companies and from the general staff, on the basis of detailed records drawn up on May 17. Facing them, the resistance had 1350 fighters, of which 450 did not participate in launching or supporting the attack. For Jean-Jacques Fouché & Gilbert Beaubatie, the forces involved numbered just over three hundred men on the German side, the attack being launched by four hundred FTP who were joined by one hundred and fifty additional fighters between the middle of the afternoon on the 7th and the morning of the 8th.