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====German anti-nazis====
From spring 1943, German and Austrian anti-nazis who had fought in the [[International Brigades]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]] fought in [[Lozère]] and the [[Cévennes]] alongside the French Resistance in the [[Francs-Tireurs et Partisans]].{{Sfn|Crowdy|2007|p=13}} During the first years of the occupation, they had been employed in the CTE, but following the German invasion of the southern zone in 1942 the threat increased, and many joined the [[maquis (World War II)|maquis]]. They were led by militant German communist [[Otto Kühne]], a former member of the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag in the Weimar Republic]] who had over 2,000 Germans in the FTP under his command by July 1944. He fought the Nazis directly, as in an April 1944 battle in [[Saint-Étienne-Vallée-Française]] in which his soldiers destroyed a [[Feldgendarmerie]] unit, or in an ambush of the [[Waffen-SS]] on June 5, 1944.{{sfn|Brès|Brès|2007|pp={{Page needed|date=April 2021}}}}