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The Milice française (French Militia), generally called la Milice (lit. ' the militia ' ; French pronunciation: [milis] ), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy régime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II .
The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) [2] [3] who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground ...
French declaration of war on Germany—17:00 on 3 September 1939. Phoney War , or drôle de guerre ("strange war"), the name given to the period of time in Western Europe from September 1939 to April 1940 when, after the blitzkrieg attack on Poland in September 1939, there was almost no fighting, and no bombs were dropped.
Army of Africa French Forces leader General Henri Giraud shakes hands with Free French Forces leader General Charles de Gaulle at the Casablanca Conference in French Morocco on 14 January 1943. Created in 1830, the Army of Africa was a colonial expeditionary force that conquered the Regency of Algiers in 1847.
A group has stepped forward to provide a home for surviving family members of two Detroit children who died in a cold van in a casino parking garage, an official said. A funeral was held Thursday ...
One Philadelphia Eagles fan, who was injured and lost a friend in the New Year’s terrorist attack in New Orleans, will be heading to Super Bowl LIX. The Philadelphia Eagles gifted Ryan Quigley ...
Resistance is a French television period drama series in six 52-minute episodes, first broadcast (as Résistance) on TF1 in France in May 2014 and on More4 in the UK in August 2015. It was broadcast and streamed on PBS in the US from January 2020. The mini-series is directed by Miguel Courtois, David Delrieux and Alain Goldman
Paris Hilton’s son Phoenix wants to help others when he grows up.. Speaking during a new interview, the DJ and heiress, 43, revealed that her 2-year-old son wants to be a firefighter in the ...