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The Mémorial de la France combattante (Memorial to Fighting France) is the most important memorial to French fighters of World War II (1939–1945). It is situated below Fort Mont-Valérien in Suresnes, in the western suburbs of Paris. It commemorates members of the armed forces from France and the colonies, and members of the French ...
French Resistance museums and memorials commemorate people and events associated with the French movements, collectively known as the French Resistance (French: La Résistance) that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War.
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Marseille Genocide Memorial; Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery; Monument aux Morts de Montauban; Monument de la Légion Etrangère (Bonifacio) Monument de la Légion Etrangère (Souain) Mémorial Charles-de-Gaulle
The Valençay SOE Memorial is a monument in France to the members of the Special Operations Executive F Section [1] who died working to liberate the country during World War II. The memorial was unveiled in the town of Valençay , in the department of Indre , on May 6, 1991, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the despatch of F Section's first ...
On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS ...
The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation (English: Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation) [2] is a memorial to the 200,000 people who were deported from Vichy France to the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. It is located in Paris, France, on the site of a former morgue, underground behind Notre Dame on Île de la Cité.
The Mémorial de Caen is a museum and war memorial in Caen, Normandy, France commemorating World War II and the Battle for Caen. More generally, the museum is dedicated to the history of the twentieth century, mainly focused on the fragility of peace. Its intention is "pay a tribute to the martyred city of the liberation" but also to tell "what ...