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The French Resistance was a collection of different groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small grou
Members of the Maquis near Boulogne-sur-Mer in September 1944
The cemetery and memorial in Vassieux-en-Vercors where, in July 1944, German Wehrmacht forces executed more than 200 people, in reprisal for the Maquis's armed resistance. The town was later awarded the Ordre de la Libération.
Identity document of French Resistance fighter Lucien Pélissou
The ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane, in the Limousin region of the Massif Central
The Provisional Government of the French Republic was the provisional government of Free France between 3 June 1944 and 27 October 1946, following the liberation of continental France after Operations
General Charles de Gaulle and the ministers of the Provisional Government, 2 November 1945
Charles de Gaulle photo Henri Manuel
Georges Bidault
Vincent Auriol – January 1946