Call to Duty: Outagamie County in World War II
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France

France surrendered to Germany on June 22, 1940. The Germans occupied Northern and Western France and claimed Alsace-Lorraine as a territory. The French Vichy government ran the rest of the country under German supervision. A French resistance movement sprang up overnight to sabotage the German war effort.

 

 

 

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A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into Paris, June 14, 1940
A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into Paris, June 14, 1940
Courtesy of the National Archives; War & Conflict
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Introduction Pre-1941 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 Resources