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The United States Army Military Government in France (in French: gouvernement militaire de l'armée des États-Unis en France, and in English: Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories or AMGOT), was an organization jointly created by the United States and the United Kingdom to administer France after the Liberation.
Following the prohibition of the French Communist Party (PCF) by the government of Édouard Daladier, they were used to detain communist political prisoners. The Third Republic also interned German anti-Nazis (mostly members of the Communist Party of Germany , KPD).
Scientific agencies of the government of France (2 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Government agencies of France" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total.
As Paris was located in the occupied zone, its government was seated in the spa town of Vichy in Auvergne, and therefore it was more commonly known as Vichy France. While the Vichy government was nominally in charge of all of France, the military administration in the occupied zone was a de facto Nazi dictatorship, where the actual sovereignty ...
The Légion impériale was a military unit created by the Vichy French government in November 1942, with the support of Nazi Ambassador Otto Abetz, to oppose the Allies, who had invaded North Africa in order to drive the Axis out.
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Many of these forms of government were known in Classical antiquity, and pre-date the existence of France. Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I (r. 509–511) as the first king of France, however historians today consider that such a kingdom didn't begin until the establishment of West Francia in 843.
In 1933, the first voluntary organization to protect civilians during war time was founded with the support of Gaston Doumergue (UNDA : UNION NATIONALE POUR LA DEFENSE AERIENNE ET POUR LA PROTECTION DES POPULATIONS CIVILES). In 1938, at the dawn of World War II, the French government developed civil defense (défense passive) policies. [2]