the Resistance was little more than an intermittent and low-grade pest to the Nazis until their numbers suddenly swelled in June 1944. What happened that June? D-Day happened. A similar phenomenon occurred with partisan groups in Denmark, Holland and Czechoslovakia. If thoroughly understandable, the reticence of subdued populations to rise up against their subjugators before tangible help is near at hand didn’t bode well for those partisan groups hoping to spark a popular uprising in the Soviet bloc, when their Western benefactors were not promising or even contemplating such help.
