Milices Patriotiques

Patriotic Militia Milices Patriotiques (MP-PM)
Participant in Second World War

Ideology	Communist
Part of	Belgian Communist Party
Allies	Partisans Armés (PA)
Opponents	German Occupying Forces

The Patriotic Militia (French: Milices patriotiques, Dutch: Patriotische Militie) was a communist group in the Belgian resistance during the Second World War, affiliated to the Communist Party of Belgium.^[1] The Milices were intended to be a mass movement, working alongside the much smaller Partisans Armés (PA) group.^[2]

History

22,006 people are recognized to have been part of the Milices during the war.^[3]

References

↑ Vaute, Paul (1 September 2004). "L'euphorie avant l'épreuve". La Libre Belgique. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
↑ Conway, Martin. The sorrows of Belgium : liberation and political reconstruction, 1944-1947. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 21. ISBN 0199694346.
↑ "Souvenir et Memoire" (PDF). www.bel-memorial.org. p. 2. Retrieved 13 February 2013.

Belgian resistance groups in World War II

Resistance groups	Secret Army (AS) Independent Front (FI) Belgian National Movement (MNB) Groupe G OMBR Armed Partisans (PA) White Brigade National Royalist Movement (MNR-NKB) Belgian Legion Revived Belgian Army (ABR) Committee for the Defense of Jews (CDJ) Austrian Freedom Front Patriotic Militia (MP-PM) Service D The Unchained Disobedience Legion of Campine (KL)

Underground publications	Faux Soir Voix des Belges La Libre Belgique Het Vrije Woord

Escape line	"Comet"

Intelligence networks	"Luc" (later "Marc") "Zéro"

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