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For the historian Éric Alary, [6] the partitioning of France into two main zones, libre and occupée, was partly inspired by the fantasy of pan-Germanist writers, particularly a work by a certain Adolf Sommerfeld, published in 1912 and translated into French under the title Le Partage de la France, which contained a map [7] showing a France partitioned between Germany and Italy according to a ...
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The occupied zone (French: zone occupée, French pronunciation: [zon É”kype], German: Besetztes Gebiet) consisted of the rest of northern and western France, including the two forbidden zones. The southern part of France, except for the western half of Aquitaine along the Atlantic coast, became the zone libre ("free zone"), where the Vichy ...
The demarcation line became moot in November 1942 after the Germans crossed the line and invaded the Free Zone in Operation Anton. After this, all of France was under German occupation, and the occupied zone north of the line became known as the "northern Zone" (Zone nord) and the former Zone libre became the "southern zone" (Zone sud). The ...
The zone interdite (Forbidden Zone) refers to two distinct territories established in German–occupied France during the Second World War after the signature of the Second Armistice at Compiègne, namely, a coastal military zone running along the entire Atlantic coast of France from Spain to Belgium, and the zone réservée ("Zone Reserved ...
Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France; Italian occupation of Corsica (1940–1943) Zone occupée (occupied zone), in parts of western and northern France, administered by the Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; Zone libre (free zone), in parts of southern France, where the rump state Vichy France was established until occupied in ...
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The Armistice of 22 June 1940 ended hostilities, dividing France into two zones: an Occupied zone in the north and west, and a nominally "free zone" in the south and east. Known officially as the "French State", the Zone libre became known as the "Vichy regime" for the location of its nominal capital