The Milice française (French Militia), generally called la Milice (lit. 'the militia'; French pronunciation: [milis]), was a political paramilitary organization...
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Joseph Darnand (category People affiliated with Action Française)
II, he went on to become the organizer and de facto leader of the Milice française, or French Militia, the collaborationist Vichy government's paramilitary...
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1919 – 14 September 2002) was a French collaborator who served in the Milice française before joining the Waffen-SS during World War II. As the surviving...
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Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK), the Organisation Todt and the detested Milice française security police. The formation was named after the Frankish king and...
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January 1943, the SOL was granted autonomy and transformed into the Milice française (French Militia), created by a law issued by Pierre Laval under agreements...
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advantage of consulting valuable original sources. His Histoire de la milice française, etc. (1721) is superior to his Histoire de France. Daniel also wrote...
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by Joseph Darnand, became independent and was transformed into the "Milice française" (French Militia). Officially directed by Pierre Laval himself, the...
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Maurice Papon, along with collaborationists French auxiliaries like the Milice, the Franc-Gardes and the Legionary Order Service. The two main collaborationist...
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rifle and MP 40 submachine gun were very common. The French Militia (Milice française), which was well equipped by the French State, was also a target of...
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and some captured from the Resistance were used by the pro-German Milice française. Still used after World War II. Greece Grenada[citation needed] India...
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captured from the Resistance were used by the pro-Nazi French militia Milice française (see picture). Some were used in Indochina. Gambia Nazi Germany:...
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Interior. Vichy France: Small number of captured examples issued to Milice française Belgium: Supplied to the Belgian Resistance during WW2. Italy: Supplied...
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were released in 1959. Peter group, pro–German Danish terrorist group Milice française, Vichy French paramilitary group Security Battalions, Greek pro-German...
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on 30 October 1944, months after Courtois was assassinated by the Milice française. It had been previously named Place de Monplaisir. The square is bordered...
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by Joseph Lecussan and Henri Gonnet of the antisemitic Vichy French Milice Française under orders of the regional chief Paul Touvier. His published works...
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Shields, pp. 36, 139, 159 M.-G. Gélis, "Lettre de Vichy. Où en est la milice française garde civique du régime", in Feuille d'Avis de Neuchatel et du Vignoble...
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buses, accompanied by six cars containing Germans and members of the Milice française. They went to Fort de Côte-Lorette, where they arrived at 8:30 AM....
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The French Legion of Veterans (French: Légion française des combattants, or LFC) was a paramilitary association established in Vichy France and Vichy's...
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French Resistance (redirect from La Résistance française)
the period of la guerre franco-française when the Milice and the Maquis fought one another without mercy. The Milice and maquis were caught up in ever-escalating...
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being denounced by an acquaintance, Perez was arrested in Paris by the Milice Francaise, a French collaborationist paramilitary force of the Vichy Regime....
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occupying troops that he found lacking in his compatriots. He joined the Milice française on June 6, 1944, the day of the Normandy invasion, and later participated...
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occupied by the Kingdom of Italy. His life took a new course after the Milice (the Vichy French militia) was established. Touvier had become known for...
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criticized for recruiting members with lengthy criminal records. The Milice française, established by the Vichy government in 1943, was approved by Brussels...
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and opportunists. Early Milice volunteers included members of France's pre-war far-right parties, such as the Action Française, and working-class men convinced...
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Enemy Number One of the fascist youth organisation Jeunesse Populaire Française (JPF). "Scalp the Zazous!" became their slogan, with squads of young JPF...
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April 1972) was a French collaborationist and senior police officer in the Milice of the Vichy regime in France. He was known to hunt down and execute resistance...
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Away theme song inexplicably inserted.) Fr. Fehily served with the Milice française during the Second World War, and apparently never gave up his Nazi...
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later founded the Service d'ordre légionnaire (SOL), the forerunner of the Milice, the collaborationist paramilitary of the Vichy regime. His nephew Henri...
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History of far-right movements in France (section Dreyfus affair and foundation of the Action française)
"Tixier-Vignancour, that is Vichy, the Collaboration proud of itself, the Milice, the OAS". Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the Front National (FN) party in 1972...
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context of the wider anti-semitism of the Vichy government and the Milice française, arguing against what she perceives as a recent tendency to minimise...
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