The scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon was orchestrated by Vichy France on 27 November 1942 to prevent Nazi German forces from seizing it. After the Allied invasion of North Africa, the Germans i
Strasbourg, Colbert, Algérie, and Marseillaise
The stern of the cruiser Marseillaise
Panzertruppen watch the burning Colbert
Toulon in late 1944