The liberation of Strasbourg took place on 23 November 1944 during the Alsace campaign (November 1944 – March 1945) in the last months of World War II...
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The liberation of Paris (French: libération de Paris) was a battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered...
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The French Liberation Army (French: Armée française de la Libération [aʁme fʁɑ̃sɛz də la libeʁasjɔ̃] or AFL) was the reunified French Army that arose...
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The Order of Liberation (French: Ordre de la Libération) is a French Order which was awarded to heroes of the Liberation of France during World War II...
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Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace, commonly known as RC Strasbourg (Alemannic German: RC Stroßburg, German: RC Straßburg; RCS) or simply just Racing, is...
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Régiment Blindé de Fusiliers-Marins (category Military history of France during World War II)
Thunderbolts destroyed an entire panzer brigade. Units of the RBFM regrouped for an assault on Strasbourg. The regiment attacked at Baccarat and Phalsbourg...
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Comité de libération du cinéma français was an organization of filmmakers in France created in 1943. The most well-known members are Jacques Becker, Pierre...
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1946, following the liberation of continental France after Operations Overlord and Dragoon, and lasting until the establishment of the French Fourth Republic...
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The liberation of France (French: libération de la France) in the Second World War was accomplished through diplomacy, politics and the combined military...
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Strasbourg (UK: /ˈstræzbɜːrɡ/, US: /ˈstrɑːsbʊərɡ, ˈstrɑːz-, -bɜːrɡ/; French: [stʁasbuʁ] ; German: Straßburg [ˈʃtʁaːsbʊʁk] ;) is the prefecture and largest...
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1940-1945. Strasbourg: Signe. pp. 416–461. ISBN 978-2-7468-4242-7. World War II Lorraine campaign Colmar Pocket Operation Nordwind Liberation of Strasbourg v t...
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of WW2 he returned to Europe and joined the French forces. He is believed to have been killed in action shortly before the liberation of Strasbourg....
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with the establishment of the outpost Bangi at the head of navigation on the Ubangi. The Upper Ubangi was established as part of the French Congo on 9...
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1st Army (France) (category Field armies of France)
cleared the west bank of the Rhine River of Germans in the area south of Strasbourg. In March 1945, the First Army fought through the Siegfried Line fortifications...
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World War II. After the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, at the request of the French Committee of National Liberation, SHAEF placed about 200,000 resistance...
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until liberation of Paris from German occupation. The paper's status was highest in the years after World War II, when the PCF was the dominant party of the...
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Sherman tank of general Leclerc's Free French 2nd Armoured Division, famous for its role in the 1944 liberation of Paris and Strasbourg. The posters were...
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Le Silence de la mer (redirect from The Silence of the Sea)
Silence de la mer (French: [lə silɑ̃s də la mɛʁ]), English titles Silence of the Sea and Put Out the Light, is a French novella written in 1941 by Jean...
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2nd Armored Division (France) (category Armored divisions of France)
during the final phases of World War II in the Western Front for the liberation of France. The division was formed around a core of units that had fought...
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Free France (redirect from Liberation of continental France)
Forces united with the Army of Africa (L'Armée d'Afrique) to form the French Liberation Army (Armée française de la Libération, AFL). By June 1944, the AFL...
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French Congo (redirect from History of French Congo)
the present-day area of the Republic of the Congo and parts of Gabon, and the Central African Republic. In 1910, it was made part of the larger French Equatorial...
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Jacques Cousteau joined the FNFL only after the liberation of France. He had spent the entirety of the war in France and developed the aqua-lung in Paris...
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France during World War II (redirect from History of France in World War II)
Appeal of 18 June of its leader, General de Gaulle. French Liberation Army (Armée française de la Libération) formed on 1 August 1943 by the merger of the...
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Henri Frenay (category Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance politicians)
at the university of Strasbourg in 1938, writing a dissertation on the German minority in Polish Upper Silesia. In 1924, at the age of 19, and having attended...
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speech of 18 June 1940 became enshrined in French history as the starting point of the French Resistance, which led directly to the Liberation four years...
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Libération-Nord ("Liberation-North") was one of the principal resistance movements in the northern occupied zone of France during the Second World War...
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Brazzaville Conference (redirect from Brazzaville Conference of 1944)
Colonies in the French Committee of National Liberation, wanted to avoid international arbitration of the future of the French Empire and in that regard...
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Resistance Medal (redirect from Medal of the Resistance)
the French Committee of National Liberation, based in the United Kingdom, during World War II. It was established by a decree of General Charles de Gaulle...
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Free French Air Forces (redirect from History of the Armée de l'Air (1940-1945))
Giraud's forces. The name was still in common use however, until the liberation of France in 1944, when they became the French Air Army. Martial Henri...
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La France Libre: de l'appel du 18 juin à la Libération [Free France: The Call of June 18 at the Liberation] (in French). Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française...
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