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The Battle of Marseille was an urban ... The groundwork was laid by the Allied invasion of southern France ... In August 1944 Hitler ordered his troops under the ...
The Marseille roundup was the systematic deportation of the Jews of Marseille in the Old Port between 22 and 24 January 1943 under the Vichy regime during the German occupation of France. Assisted by the French police , directed by René Bousquet , the Germans organized a raid to arrest Jews.
Deportation of Jews during the Marseille roundup, 23 January 1943. The Holocaust in France was the persecution, deportation, and annihilation of Jews between 1940 and 1944 in occupied France, metropolitan Vichy France, and in Vichy-controlled French North Africa, during World War II.
Marseille 27 May 1944, 1,752 dead, Avignon 27 May 1944, 525 dead, Lisieux 6–7 June 1944, 700 dead, Vire 6–7 June 1944, 400 dead, Caen 6–7 June 1944, more than 1,000 dead, Le Havre 5–11 September 1944, more than 5,000 dead, Royan 5 January 1945, 1,700 dead, etc.
A French force invaded the Saarland in western Germany in the Saar Offensive led by general Louis Faury, who prior to the war had been head of the French Military Mission to Poland. Although tactically successful, as the advance into German territory reached 8 km, the Saar operation was abandoned on 12 September when the Anglo French Supreme ...
The French Resistance played a significant role in facilitating the Allies' rapid advance through France following the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. Members provided military intelligence on German defences known as the Atlantic Wall, and on Wehrmacht deployments and orders of battle for the Allies' invasion of Provence on 15 August. The ...
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Operation Torch was the American and British invasion of French North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia), started on 8 November 1942, with landings in Morocco and Algeria. The long-term goal was to clear German and Italian forces from North Africa, enhance naval control of the Mediterranean and prepare for an invasion of Italy in 1943.