I appreciate history and am interested in it but my ability to have a deeper understanding of it sucks. So this may be a stupid question, please bear with me.
Between 1940 leading up to D-Day, how exactly were the French able to communicate with the allies and it's desires to be liberated from Nazi German?
The Nazis occupied the country for 4 years and I assume under tight control. I would imagine that France in a position to either integrate with Germans and accept control or conspire with the allies to become liberated - how exactly were they able to do this without most of France being put into a concentration camp? Or was this more an understanding that France was an ally and simply a known objective to liberate the country regardless if they wanted to or not?
Sorry if this question is kind of stupid, having a hard time phrasing exactly what I'm trying to say but thank you for any responses.
The French resistance was a resistance group created after the defeat of the French government, they fought against the Vichy and Nazi governments in France. The French resistance helped the allies by a variety of means such as not cooperating with the Nazis, misinforming the Nazis, sabotaging their machinery, helping crashed pilots and POW's flee the country and sometimes even liberate small towns under Nazi control, these are just a few things which they did there were many more. The answer to your other question, the country was split up into two parts the Southern part which was governed by Marshal Philippe Pétain, a well respected war hero and General of WW1. Petain's aim was to free captured French POWs from the Nazis, but this could only happen if he cooperated with the Nazis, this made France exactly like Nazi Germany because Petain pretty much gave full control of the state to the Nazis in order to free the POWs. This made the French public hate Petain as they had to go through an agonizing 4 years of hell.