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    Second World War. The maquis used the prominent scenic plateau known as the Massif du Vercors (Vercors Plateau) as a refuge. The maquis carried out sabotage...
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    were able to counterattack in southeast France. On the Vercors Massif, the Maquis du Vercors rose up with some 4,000 soldiers against the German occupiers...
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  • of Isère and Drome, French Alps Vercors Regional Natural Park, a protected area of southeastern France Maquis du Vercors, a section of the French Resistance...
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    the Free Republic of Vercors, led by the Maquis du Vercors, a base for the French Resistance against German occupation. The Vercors includes the largest...
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    Wehrmacht that worked alongside the Milice Allies Maquis des Glières – resistance group Maquis du Vercors – resistance group "Nenektogel4d: Situs SBOBET88...
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    natural park in 1970. The Vercors parklands include the following communes: List of regional natural parks of France Maquis du Vercors IUCN Commission on National...
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    Alain Le Ray (category Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite)
    January 1943. He assumed military command of the maquis du Vercors in February 1943. Le Ray left the Vercors in January 1944 and become the Forces Françaises...
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    known as the Maquis du Vercors, staged a major uprising against the German occupation in Vercors and proclaimed the Free Republic of Vercors. It was the...
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    plateau became a stronghold of a French Resistance group called the Maquis du Vercors. On 22 January 1944, a column of 300 German troops arrived at the...
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    Villard-de-Lans" (in French). "Maquis et Résistance en Vercors" (in French). Gilles Vergon, Le Vercors: histoire et mémoire d'un maquis, éditions du Patrimoine, p. 169-170...
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    taken the village of Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte from the Maquis du Vercors, which severed the link between the Vercors plateau and Grenoble. To celebrate...
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    The Maquis du Limousin was one of the largest Maquis groups of French resistance fighters fighting for the liberation of France. The region of Limousin...
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    massacre Lipa massacre Massacre of villages under Kamešnica Maquis (World War II) Maquis du Vercors Maillé massacre Michniów massacre Putten raid Burning of...
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  • (1899–1988) Jean Prévost (1901–1944), writer, conceived and organized the Maquis du Vercors Adrienne Ranc-Sakakini (1916–2014), member of F2 network in Marseille...
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    Balme-de-Thuy Maquis du Vercors Maquis du Mont Mouchet French Resistance Free French Forces French Forces of the Interior Liberation of Paris Maquis de l'Oisans...
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  • France in World War II they made films about the Maquis, such as one showing a Maquis camp in Vercors. During the uprising in Paris, they filmed the documentary...
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    maquis shrubland that provided ideal terrain for guerrilla warfare. For instance, a large number of German units were required to clear the maquis du...
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  • and final series is based on the actions of the Maquis du Vercors and the events in Vassieux-en-Vercors, though the locations used are given fictional...
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    was the seat of strong partisan activity. The best known was the Maquis du Vercors. In 1944, its members suffered from German attacks. The martyr village...
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    II Paratrooper Airborne forces List of paratrooper forces Commando Maquis du Vercors Fallschirmjägergewehr 42 1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring...
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    Executive, to evaluate the capabilities of the Resistance and train the Maquis du Vercors in the Alpine region. He drove four downed RAF pilots to the border...
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    and August, Germans launched their largest operations against the Maquis du Vercors. Similar to the "cauldron operations" employed in the Soviet Union...
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  • occupation, some heavy weapons were dispatched, for example to the Maquis du Vercors. Weapons such as the British Army's standard Bren light machine gun...
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  • Resistance. Vassieux-en-Vercors, on the Vercors Massif of the Alps, was a center of the resistance of the Maquis du Vercors. Hundreds of "Montagnards"...
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    massacre. Large maquis where significant military operations were conducted included the maquis du Vercors, the maquis du Limousin, the maquis des Glières...
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    is in charge of resupplying camps in the mountains. He joins the Maquis du Vercors, the groups of resistants. Takes the Résistance name of Lucien Hervé...
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    within this single list. Place du 11-Novembre-1918 Place du 18-Juin-1940 Place du 25-Août-1944 Place du 8 Février 1962 Place du 8 Novembre 1942 Paris Arrondissements...
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  • auxiliary force in the fighting against the Glières Maquis. During operations against the Maquis du Vercors, the GMR stationed themselves at the foot of the...
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    World War. Maquis du Vercors Aimé Charles Irvoy Selon le livre Grenoble, Charles de Gaulle, Isère, page 83. Selon les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné...
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    the maquis wounded; he himself brought 10kg of his own surgical equipment. At the beginning of August, after defeating the maquis of the Vercors and Glières...
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