operations against the Resistance by the Brehmer Division were responsible for 1500 arrests, 55 shootings, 128 crimes or offenses in 92 localities and 200 Jews assassinated, but no direct confrontation with the Maquis. The Brehmer division left Corrèze in May, after having equally devastated Dordogne and Haute-Vienne. The crackdown partially explains the operations in Tulle by the Resistance who hoped to end the suffering of the population. Battle of Tulle Liberation Resistance operations in Tulle were planned by the commander of the Maquis FTP of Corrèze, , known as Kléber, in mid April or at the beginning of May 1944: "Originally, it seems the attack was planned with no connection to the landing, the date of which was still unpredictable. " It had several objectives: "disarm, and if possible, destroy the German defenses; disarm the mobile reserve groups and appropriate for themselves their weapons and vehicles; render inoffensive the French Militia and known collaborators", but also, "to open gaps in the defense, to inspire a healthy fear of its leaders and get them to retreat into Tulle and be unwilling to leave, stopping them, at least for a time, from continuing their efforts against the Maquis. " When contacted, officials of the French Armée secrète Resistance indicated they were totally opposed to operations against an urban centre. According to J. Delarue, Tulle was defended by a garrison of seven hundred men of the 3rd battalion of the of the Wehrmacht, which had to be supplemented by six or seven hundred men of the Mobile Reserve Group and the French Militia; B. Kartheuser estimates that the staff of the 95th Security Regiment included 289 men coming from the 8th and 13th companies and from the general staff, on the basis of detailed records drawn up on May 17. Facing them, the resistance had 1350 fighters, of which 450 did not participate in launching or supporting the attack. For Jean-Jacques Fouché & Gilbert Beaubatie, the forces involved numbered just over three hundred men on the German side, the attack being launched by four hundred FTP who were joined by one hundred and fifty additional fighters between the middle of the afternoon on the 7th and the morning of the 8th. The offensive began on 7 June 1944 at 5 o'clock in the morning with a bazooka shot on the security forces' barracks at Champ de Mars serving as the signal to begin