And yet, the Vercors was the place of the most violent fights between the French Resistance and the Wehrmacht as the Resistance proclamed, in this place, the Republic of the Vercors, which lasted 3 weeks, and also because the Vercors is a natural bareer that provided the use of tanks, plus, the Restistance fighters knew perfectly the massif and its dangers so Germans had to commit massacres against civilians and hospital to create a pressure over the Resistance. It was the exemple of the La Luire cave which has been a hospital for a few days but they were denunced to the SS who came there, killed 35 wouded Resistance fighters, the German soldiers taken in charge there and the responsible of this field hospital, the rest of the medical team was arreseted and deported.
And as some village histories, there was in the village were a part of my familly lived a family whose one of the son, in spite of being from a neighbourhood massif, was engaged in the Vercors Resistance and has been executed during the attack on Chapelle-en-Vercors on Jully 25th 1944. There, the Wehrmacht came by the road to the village surrounded it, gathered all the population in the main place and they selected 16 young men and killed them in a farm as they set fire to the village, the remains were discovered days after and his mother only was able to identificate him thanks to his socks, he was only 18 years old. But that kind of arbitrary executions weren't uncommon in France, it was a mean for the Wehrmacht to put a pressure on the Resistance fighters by taking hostages and to kill them, though it most ended by an execution than by a surrounding of the Resistance fighters.
And today, the remembrance of the war is still very present and a lot of villages quarrels are due to this time, generally it opposed the famillies of pro-Resistance against famillies of collaborators though the children have done nothing and probably disapprove the act comitted by their parents or grand parents.