The Resistance and Vercors

Not having watched 'Allo 'Allo, my knowledge of the Resistance is limited but we were educated and given food for thought while traveling through The Vercors. This region, at the southwest tip of the Alps, was where the French Resistance first became organised, and is dotted with memorials to their courage. Cycling behind a screen of trees, the dramatic scenery only occasionally presents itself, but clearings reveal densely wooded slopes dropping to valleys hundreds of feet below. A landscape where many Resistance camps existed and their activity culminated in an attack on the Germans to coincide with the D-Day landings in July 1944. Promises of reinforcements from the Allies never materialised and despite their bravery many died due to the Germans superior equipment and air attacks. 15,000 German troops which would have otherwise been used on the Normandy front were deployed but the destroyed villages are evidence of the brutal retribution in the aftermath of the attack.
The most difficult decisions I have recently faced have been involved in the planning of this tour. Yet for those living under Nazi occupation, which occurred not so long before I was born, the decisions people faced were of a life and death nature. To collaborate or resist to face exile or extermination or to stand by while sections of society are eliminated?