But just who did what in the Resistance has frequently been a source of heated debate in France where there's been much agonizing about collaboration with the Nazis and ambivalence about the Resistance.

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The source of that frustration used to be the Germans' seeming resistance to ever making a mistake.

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The resistance of the unelectable old guard to ineluctable change is the main source of instability.

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Moving the lines of responsibility undermined Noa as, "there was a lot of resistance internally still, " to his authority, according to an anonymous source quoted by the Financial Times.

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