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The French resistance killed a lot of civilians, including after the war.
Lynchings of French girls who had German soldier boyfriends (or, more sinisterly, were coerced into sleeping with them) were pretty common. Murders of collaborators and the families of collaborators were not unknown. When you're a resistance fighter, you hit soft targets.
They were not nearly as bad as the British and American air forces, who murdered civilians far more indiscriminately; or the Soviets, who both liberated and murdered many more people; and of course not nearly as bad as the German occupation authorities or the French collaborators. But they were not saints. There are no saints in wars of resistance. If you want people with clean hands, avert your eyes from such conflicts.
The French resistance killed a lot of civilians, including after the war.
Lynchings of French girls who had German soldier boyfriends (or, more sinisterly, were coerced into sleeping with them) were pretty common. Murders of collaborators and the families of collaborators were not unknown. When you're a resistance fighter, you hit soft targets.
They were not nearly as bad as the British and American air forces, who murdered civilians far more indiscriminately; or the Soviets, who both liberated and murdered many more people; and of course not nearly as bad as the German occupation authorities or the French collaborators. But they were not saints. There are no saints in wars of resistance. If you want people with clean hands, avert your eyes from such conflicts.