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4 days ago · The term “Vichy France” reflects a period in French history which many historians view as both dark and unfortunate. It refers to a wartime government based in the city of Vichy, south of Paris. The government lasted from July 1940 to 1944, when the Allied liberation took place.
2 days ago · Following the liberation of France, on 8 September 1944, Pétain and other members of the French cabinet at Vichy were relocated by the Germans to the Sigmaringen enclave in Germany, where they became a government-in-exile until April 1945.
1 day ago · The German invasion of France began on May 10, 1940, and within a month, the country had fallen to the Nazi onslaught. The northern and western parts of France came under direct German occupation, while the southeastern region remained under the control of the newly-established Vichy regime, led by Marshal Philippe Pétain.
5 days ago · D-Day was the first day of Operation Overlord, the Allied attack on German-occupied Western Europe, which began on the beaches of Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944. Primarily US, British, and Canadian troops, with naval and air support, attacked five beaches, landing some 135,000 men in a day widely considered to have changed history.
1 day ago · Vichy France Formation of government. During the Phoney War, Laval was cautiously ambivalent towards the conflict. He was on record as saying in March 1940 that although the war could have been avoided by diplomatic means, it was now up to the government to prosecute it with the utmost vigour.
4 days ago · Price: £62.00. Reviewer: Professor Robert Gildea. University of Oxford. Citation: Professor Robert Gildea, review of France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944, (review no. 262) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/262. Date accessed: 23 May, 2024. Julian Jackson’s monumental history of Vichy is a powerful contribution to the historiography.
1 day ago · Recruitment in liberated France led to an expansion of the French armies. By the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, France had 1,250,000 troops, 10 divisions of which were fighting in Germany. An expeditionary corps was created to liberate French Indochina, then occupied by the Japanese. During the course of the war, French military losses ...
