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The Bicycle Courier Problem

Why were bicycles so valuable to Resistance couriers?

They looked ordinary, needed no fuel, and allowed couriers to move messages, detonators, and forged papers between villages with less suspicion than motor vehicles attracted.

Why it matters: Small material facts like this explain how clandestine networks actually functioned in occupied Europe.

Occupied France ยท 1940-1944

Source trail: Imperial War Museums