When a country invades and overtakes another country - let’s use Germany’s occupation of France in WWII as our example - does the occupying force have a presence in every town and village, or would there have been isolated pockets of France that went untouched or felt no real change at all?

by Rahtigari
voyeur324

/u/commiespaceinvader has previously answered a question about "a day in the life" of Gentiles in occupied France.

/u/hellcatfighter has previously answered ...only 10% of the population supported the French resistance. how could freedom fighters trying to liberate their own country be so wildly unpopular?, which discusses the memory politics and historiography of this question. hellcatfighter is flaired for expertise in the 2nd Sino-Japanese War and may have more to contribute about Japanese occupiers.