Pursued from every direction, the Resistance had no fixed headquarters. Nor did it possess a face other than the images that the occupying forces used to denounce what it labeled a "criminal army." The Resistance expressed itself in public primarily through signs anonymously scrawled on walls or clandestine newspapers slipped into mailboxes or randomly scattered--and often seized before being distributed. When the armed resistance attacked, the burials of executed Germans and collaborators and public eulogies indirectly made Resistance efforts visible. Today, memorial plaques erected in homage to fallen resistance fighters after Liberation remain the only tangible trace left by the Resistance.
