Vermillion is right in - I think - almost all he posted (I don't intend to agree with you too often! [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) about the different levels of partisan warfare in both sides of Europe and the nationalism in resistance or terrorism (I don't want to discuss that).
What I'd have to add would be that France was under a stronger administration of the German Army, more than police or party organisations. At least, compared to the east. And the French maquis were supported and hidden by the people voluntarily and the Germans used to retaliate against the very resistance groups, not the people who helped them. An exception would be Oradour-sur-Glanse and Das Reich division... [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]
But in the east, there were special task forces specially made of burglars and ruthless animals to fight the partisans and annihilate the
Untermenschen when doing it. But there were more, since many people in occupied Russia didn't help voluntarily the partisans and as in the Ukraine, the partisan groups fought each other. So the people suffered attrocities from Soviet partisans, Ukranian partisans and German forces. You cannot compare the maquis and other partisan movements. The maquis may have been less ruthless but the other were more effective by consuming a huge ammount of German troops.