🇫🇷 Fall of Paris, June 14, 1940 - Nazi Germany Occupation of France, World War II

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- Fall of Paris, June 14, 1940.
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- Paris in WWII, wiki. - The city of Paris started mobilizing for war in Sept. 1939, when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union attacked Poland, but the war seemed far away until May 10, 1940, when the Germans attacked France and quickly defeated the French army. The French government departed Paris on June 10, and the Germans occupied the city on June 14, 1940.

During the occupation, the French government moved to Vichy, and Paris was governed by the German military and by French officials approved by the Germans.

For Parisians, the occupation was a series of frustrations, shortages and humiliations. A curfew was in effect from nine in the evening until five in the morning; at night, the city went dark. Rationing of food, tobacco, coal and clothing was imposed from September 1940. Every year the supplies grew more scarce and the prices higher. A million Parisians left the city for the provinces, where there was more food and fewer Germans.

The French press and radio contained only German propaganda.

Jews in Paris were forced to wear the yellow Star of David badge, and were barred from certain professions and public places.

On July 16–17, 1942, 13,152 Jews, including 4,115 children, were rounded up by the French police, on orders of the Germans, and were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The first demonstration against the occupation, by Paris students, took place on Nov. 11, 1940. As the war continued, anti-German clandestine groups and networks were created, some loyal to the French Communist Party, others to General Charles de Gaulle in London. They wrote slogans on walls, organized an underground press, and sometimes attacked German officers. Reprisals by the Germans were swift and harsh.

Following the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, the French Resistance in Paris launched an uprising on 19 Aug., seizing the police headquarters and other government buildings.

The city was liberated by French and American troops on Aug. 25th; the next day, General de Gaulle led a triumphant parade down the Champs-Élysées on Aug. 26th, and organized a new government. In the following months, 10,000 Parisians who had collaborated with the Germans were arrested and tried, 8, 000 convicted, and 116 executed. On April 29th and May 13th, 1945, the first post-war municipal elections were held, in which French women voted for the first time...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_World_War_II
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- Battle of France, wiki. The Battle of France (10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign, the French Campaign and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and France. The invasion plan for the Low Countries and France was called Case Yellow (German, Fall Gelb). Fall Rot (Case Red) was planned to finish off the French and British after the evacuation at Dunkirk.

The Low Countries and France were defeated and occupied by Axis troops down to the Demarcation line. In November 1942, Wehrmacht troops also occupied Vichy France ending land operations on the Western Front until the Normandy landings began on 6 June 1944. On 3 Sept. 1939, France and Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, over the German invasion of Poland on 1 Sept. In early Sept. 1939, France began the limited Saar Offensive but by mid-Oct. had withdrawn to their start lines. Starting 10 May 1940, Wehrmacht armies invaded Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and parts of France...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France

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