The French police and then German military killing students quickly brought down this act. Soon the resistance started to become more organized, the major factions of resistance were known by the newspapers that kept their members informed, combat, Franc-Tireur, Liberation . The papers started out as connecting those in certain political parties but eventually diffused to included a diverse amount of French citizens. There were resistors from those who fought, sabotaged, were involved in the black market and those who simply listened to the BBC broadcasts, all were subject to punishment and all risked being caught. All the resistance movements found it difficult to converge together, de Gaulle and his Free French along with the resistance movements in France did not want to change their goals in the work that they were doing in order to come together under one leading body. However, in 1942 the movements started to come together, de Gaulle sent Jean Moulin to bring the French resistance and the Free French together. This fell short of its goal because by 1943 Moulin was captured, tortured, and killed . As the war came to an end “France looked back on resistance activity as the ‘normal’ behavior of all French people. This it had never been” . The resistance was never normal behavior for the French people, at first it was a small amount of the population that took part in it, as the war turned in favor of the allies and French resistance then more started to join and when there was an end in sight the population was flocking to join up just to see the end on the winning side. From the leaders of the resistance and de Gaulle it was important to preach to France that they resisted from the beginning in order to come together. The country needed to come together and move past the horrors of the war and in order to