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Date: September 2008: Source: Own work. Source of data: NGDC World Data Bank II (public domain) Image:France map Lambert-93 with regions and departments-blank.svg
Vichy (1940–1944), the Third Republic was abolished in Vichy and replaced it with the French State. Brazzaville (1940–1943), with metropolitan France under Axis powers rule, Brazzaville was announced as the seat of the Free France government. Algiers (1943–1944), the city was made the seat of Free France, to be closer to the war in Europe.
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. Italian occupation of France during World War II - limited to border areas 1940–1942, almost all Rhône left-bank territory 1942-1943.
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 ...
France emerged from World War II severely weakened economically. It had been in a period of economic stagnation even when the war broke out. [160]: 39 By 1945 national income, in real terms, was little more than half what it had been in 1929. [161]: 233
With nearly 75,000 inhabitants killed and 550,000 tons of bombs dropped, France was, after Germany, the second most severely bomb-devastated country on the Western Front of World War II. [25] Allied bombings were particularly intense before and during Operation Overlord in 1944.
By WES GALLAGHER Associated Press Staff Writer The Associated Press had some two dozen writers and photographers among the Allied forces as they landed on Normandy's coast on June 6, 1944. From ...
12 August – The world's first undersea oil pipeline is laid, between England and France in Operation Pluto. 15 August – Operation Dragoon lands Allies in southern France. 19 August – Liberation of Paris: The city rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops. 20 August – American forces defeat German forces at Chambois.