Editing French Resistance (section)

===Guerrilla warfare===
[[File:SimoneSegouin.jpg|thumb|[[Simone Segouin]] in 1944]]
After the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, communists engaged in [[guerrilla warfare]], attacking German forces in French cities. In July 1942, the Allies' failure to open a second front resulted in a wave of communist guerrilla attacks aimed at maximizing the number of Germans deployed in the West to give the USSR military relief.{{Sfn|Jackson|2003|p=424}}

The assassinations that took place during summer and autumn 1941, starting with Colonel [[Pierre-Georges Fabien]]'s shooting of a German officer in the [[Paris Métro]], caused fierce reprisals and executions of hundreds of French hostages. As a result, the clandestine press was very discreet about the events and the communists soon decided to discontinue the assassinations.

From July to October 1943, groups in Paris engaging in attacks against occupying soldiers were better organized. [[Joseph Epstein]] was assigned responsibility for training Resistance fighters across the city, and his new commandos of fifteen men perpetrated a number of attacks that could not have been carried out before. The commandos were drawn from the foreign branch of the [[Francs-Tireurs et Partisans]], and the most famous of them was the [[Missak Manouchian|Manouchian Group]].[[File:FFI Fighter.jpg|thumb|An FFI fighter]]