Maquis des Glières

Battle of Glières
Part of Second World War
Geographic organization of the French Resistance showing the Haute-Savoie and Rhône-Alpes region in R1
Date 31 January 1944 – 26 March 1944 Location Glières Plateau, Bornes Massif, Haute-Savoie, France Result German and Vichy French victory Propaganda boost for French Resistance
Belligerents
French Resistance	Nazi Germany  Vichy France Milice Groupe mobile de réserve Garde Mobile
Commanders and leaders
Tom Morel  † Maurice Anjot  †	Karl Pflaum Jean de Vaugelas Jacques de Bernonville Georges Lelong
Strength
circa 450 maquisards (including 56 Spanish fighters and 80 Francs-tireurs)	over 1,400 Vichy policemen 700 Milice Franc-Gardes 3,000 German soldiers
Casualties and losses
140 dead or deported	21 dead

German and Vichy French victory

 Nazi Germany
 Vichy France

The Maquis des Glières was a Free French Resistance group, which fought against the 1940–1944 German occupation of France in World War II. The name is also given to the military conflict that opposed Resistance fighters to German, Vichy and Milice forces.

At the end of 1943, the French Resistance in the French Alps of Haute-Savoie needed arms. To find good drop zones to supply the Maquis with arms and sabotage equipment, a mission composed of Major Heslop from the Special Operations Executive and Captain Rosenthal from the Free French Forces was sent from London. The Glières Plateau, a high remote mountain table close to Lake Annecy, was chosen.

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