occupied France
Wehrmacht-controlled French territory
Occupied France refers to the portion of France under direct German military control during World War II, from the 1940 armistice until liberation in 1944.
The term distinguishes this northern zone, including Paris, from Vichy France in the south, which maintained nominal independence under a collaborationist government.
My grandmother lived in occupied France during the war.
- VichyFrench thermal resort town
- free zoneDuty-exempt import area
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- NaziGerman fascist party member
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
liberation · Wehrmacht · Gestapo · curfew · rations · rationing cards · underground · maquis · deportation · armistice · Atlantic Wall · swastika · checkpoint · identity papers · papers · sabotage · partisans · false papers
- WWII EuropeNormandy, Operation Overlord, Battle of Britain, D-Day, Utah Beach
- French themesParis, Napoleon, Versailles, Provence, cafes
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