Analyse the development, use and effectiveness of German Anti-Resistance Forces during WW2.

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Analyse the development, use and effectiveness of German Anti-Resistance Forces during WW2.

In the area of counter-terrorist and counter-revolutionary warfare the experience of the German occupying forces in WW2 one of the earliest (non-colonial) instances of modern counter-terrorist warfare it is also in many ways a unique one, firstly because of the geographic area that the 'Reich' covered (both in the large size and the European location), secondly because of the Ideological basis of the differences in treatment of the various national and ethnic groupings.

Counterinsurgency warfare is among the most difficult for a regular (i.e. occupying) force to win. The occupying force is subject to much stress - hatred of the governed, an enemy that operates outside the rules of warfare and amid the civilian population, or operates out of remote locations and difficult terrain. Occupying forces, from any era and any nation, face the same set of challenges and difficulties attempting to suppress a guerrilla movement, and often adopt similar stratagems. Though less brutal in scale, the counterinsurgency tactics used by the USA in Vietnam (search & destroy mission, free-fire zones, forced evacuations, etc.) had their precedents in the German campaigns against