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French Order of Battle World War II. Pisgah, Ohio: Privately published, 1995. France. Service historique de l'armée de terre (1967). Les grandes unités françaises: guerre 1939-1945 : historiques succincts. L'Armée françaises en 1939. Les régions militaires. La mobilisation. 1. Imprimerie nationale. OCLC 422113261.
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.
Junction of the armored forces of the 2nd Armored Division (France) of General Leclerc with that of the 1st Armored Division (France) under General de Lattre de Tassigny [75] [4] 1944-09-12: Vesoul: 70: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté [76] 1944-09-13: Chaumont: 52: Grand Est: Germans evacuated in the night of September 12 to September 13.
There are many administrative divisions, which may have political (local government), electoral (districts), or administrative (decentralized services of the state) objectives. All the inhabited territories are represented in the National Assembly , Senate and Economic and Social Council and their citizens have French citizenship and elect the ...
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 ...
The Wehrmacht maintained a varying number of divisions in France. 100,000 Germans were in the whole of the German-zone in France in December 1941. [10] When the bulk of the Wehrmacht was fighting on the eastern front , German units were rotated to France to rest and refit.
The Timeline of the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, covers the period during World War II from the first military actions between Germany and France and to the armistice signed by France.
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 outskirts of Paris. It consisted of 117 divisions, with 94 committed to the northeastern front and a commander, General Alphonse Georges, at La Ferte-sous-Jouarre.