Liberation of France
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The liberation of France in the Second World War was accomplished through the combined military efforts of the Allied Powers including Free French forces in London and Africa, and the French Resistanc
Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle speaking from the balcony at Cherbourg City Hall, 20 August 1944
Philippe Pétain meeting Hitler on 24 October 1940. Ribbentrop on the right.
Poster of the 18 June appeal distributed in Occupied France through underground means as pamphlets and plastered on walls as posters by supporters of the Résistance.
Generals Eisenhower and Bradley with a young member of the French resistance during the liberation of Lower Normandy in summer 1944
French Resistance
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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