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The French Connection was a scheme through which heroin was smuggled from Indochina through ... The first significant post-World War II seizure was made in New York ...
Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon. Service du travail obligatoire - the provision of French citizens as forced labour in Germany. Axis occupation of France: German occupation of France during World War II - 1940–1944 in the northern zones, and 1942–1944 in the southern zone. The Holocaust in France.
French and British troops sharing Christmas drinks at Kedange-sur-Canner, near Metz, 21 December 1939 Internment of French troops in Switzerland, June 1940. France had lots of armed forces in World War II, in part due to the German occupation. In 1940, General Maurice Gamelin commanded the French Army, headquartered in Vincennes on the ...
The Military Administration in France (German: Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; French: Administration militaire en France) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France.
The French expected Germany to breach Belgian neutrality first, thus providing a pretext for French intervention or for the Belgians to request support when an invasion was imminent. Most of the French mobile forces were assembled along the Belgian border, ready to make a quick move forward and take up defensive positions before the Germans ...
The Armée Secrète was a French military organization active during World War II. The collective grouped the paramilitary formations of the three most important Gaullist resistance movements in the southern zone: Combat, Libération-sud and the Franc-Tireurs.
Apr. 8—The gratitude and aloha that grew between citizens of Bruyeres, France, and the veterans of the legendary 442nd Regimental Combat Team is still going strong 80 years after the Hawaii-born ...
End of the Affair: The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1939–1940 (1980) Jackson, Julian. France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944 (2001) ch 6; Lacouture, Jean. De Gaulle: The Rebel, 1890–1944 (1984; English ed. 1991), ISBN 084190927X; Potts, William J. The German-French Armistice of June, 1940, and the German Armistice Commission, 1940 ...