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    The 15th Military Division (French: 15e Division Militaire) also known as the 15th Military Region (French: 15e Région Militaire) was an infantry formation...
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    The 7th Military Division (French: 7ème Division Militaire) was a regional army division of the Armistice Army, the Vichy France military permitted under...
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    The Government of Vichy France was the collaborationist ruling regime or government in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War. Of contested...
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  • Vichy syndrome (French: syndrome de Vichy) is a term used to describe the guilt, denial and shame of French people regarding the actions of Vichy France...
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  • The 14th Military Division was a division sized unit of the Vichy France army. The division was formed in late 1940 and demobilized in late 1942. It was...
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    Armistice Army (French: Armée de l'Armistice) or Vichy French Army (French: Vichy Armée française) was the armed forces of Vichy France permitted under...
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  • The Military Division (French: Division Militaire, abbreviated to DM) was a Vichy French infantry formation in 1940-1942, during World War II. The divisions...
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  • occupied the north and west of French territory and a collaborationist régime under Philippe Pétain established itself in Vichy. General Charles de Gaulle...
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  • The French State, popularly known as Vichy France, as led by Marshal Philippe Pétain after the Fall of France in 1940 before Nazi Germany, was quickly...
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    The Vichy French Air Force (French: Vichy Armée de l'Air française), usually referred to as the Air Force of Vichy (Armée de l'air de Vichy) or Armistice...
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    French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during...
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  • known as Vichy France. Some of the Vichy 80, like Léon Blum, would go on to be imprisoned by regime, while others managed to join the French Resistance...
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    Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by...
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  • After capitulation, France was governed as Vichy France headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain. From 1940 to 1942, while the Vichy regime was the nominal...
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    commander-in-chief of Vichy armed forces, that granted the Allied Powers military access to French North Africa but confirmed French sovereignty over the...
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    Henri Dentz (category People of Vichy France)
    general in the French Army (Armée de Terre) who served with the Vichy French Army after France surrendered during the Second World War. He was tried as a collaborator...
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    The military history of France encompasses an immense panorama of conflicts and struggles extending for more than 2,000 years across areas including modern...
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    coast of Morocco, North Africa, overwhelming Vichy French defenders in November 1942. In 1943, the division invaded Sicily in July, and invaded Italy at...
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    the Vichy regime considered itself to be neutral and not part of an alliance with Germany. The Vichy regime could not control large parts of French territory...
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    short undeclared military confrontation between Japan and Vichy France in northern French Indochina. Fighting lasted from 22 to 26 September 1940; the...
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    Philippe Pétain (category People of Vichy France)
    collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II. Pétain was admitted to the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1876 and pursued...
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    by various military forces, including those of the United States. While the British began the design and use of tanks in World War I, France at the same...
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    of the Aisne and Retreat of the Center. Division became the 7th Cavalry Brigade in the army of Vichy France. Final command post at Moriat. Subordination:...
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  • The Vichy Syndrome (Le syndrome de Vichy) is a 1987 book by Henry Rousso. The term Vichy syndrome is used by Rousso to describe the collective guilt, shame...
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    After the defeat of France in 1940, a black market developed in both German-occupied territory and the zone libre controlled by the Vichy regime. Diversions...
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    occupation and the Vichy regime. Before 1919, most French Jews lived in Paris, with many being very proud to be fully assimilated into French culture, and they...
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    was the exiled remnant of France's Nazi-sympathizing Vichy government which fled to Germany during the Liberation of France near the end of World War...
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    north lay the zone occupée ("occupied zone"), in which the powers of Vichy France were severely limited. In November 1942, the zone libre was invaded by...
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    Milice (redirect from French Militia)
    the Vichy régime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II. The Milice's formal head was Vichy France's Prime...
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  • Led by Philippe Pétain, the Vichy regime that replaced the French Third Republic in 1940 chose the path of collaboration with the Nazi occupiers. This...
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