GAULEITER: Political and administrative official of a region in Nazi Germany.

GF: Groupes Francs. Formed as action units in Combat in 1941. They became the main military formations of the AS before the maquis before operating parallel to them. In some regions, such as the Bouches-du-Rhône, they were the Resistance movement's main military forces until the Liberation, committing acts of sabotage, harassing the enemy and, towards the end, engaging in direct military clashes. Like the maquis of the AS, the "Groupes Francs" received weapons and munitions by parachute drops organised by British or French agents acting individually or by the Service Atterrissage Parachutage (SAP), which co-ordinated ground reconnaissance of possible landing areas and organised their encoding with the BCRA and SOE. They also carried out spectacular actions; for example, on the night before the commemoration of 11 November 1943, despite the presence of German patrols and the French police, the Groupe Franc set up a Marianne and a slogan, "Vive la IVe", in the heart of Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain).

GHETTO: At first the name of a quarter in Venice where the city's Jews were forced to live and where they were locked inside at night. In the 19th and 20th centuries, this was the name given to the Jewish quarters in Eastern European cities. During the Second World War, they were the quarters in which the Nazis locked up the Jews, where they lived in ghastly conditions of overcrowding, malnutrition and lack of hygiene until being deported to concentration or extermination camps.

G.M.R.: Groupes Mobiles de Réserve (“Mobile Reserve Groups”). Vichy paramilitary police organised into regional brigades whose main function was to hunt down the maquis.

GENOCIDE: (from the Greek genos ("race") and the suffix -cide, "to kill". The methodical destruction of an ethnic group. Term used for the first time in 1944 in reference to the Nazis' extermination of the Jews.

GPRF: Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Française (“Provisional Government of the French Republic”). Derived from the CFLN and led by General de Gaulle, the GPRF settled in Paris at the Liberation and continued the war against Germany. Its success, and the de Gaulle’s recognised right to represent the French nation, was symbolised by France’s presence at the signature of Germany’s surrender.

GESTAPO: Geheime Staats polizei: secret state police. Nazi political police organised in the 1930s under the authority of Himmler and Heydrich that was active in Germany and throughout occupied Europe. The Gestapo tracked down Jews and Resistance members. This police force did not answer to the State but to the Nazi Party.

GUMMI: rubber club that the S.S. and kapos always carried to strike deportees and administer the schlague.