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French home front during World War II
- German military administration in occupied France during World War IIGerman soldiers marched past the Arc de Triomphe on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris during June 1940. This moment marked the beginning of a military…
- Paris in World War IIThe city of Paris started mobilizing for war in September 1939, when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union attacked Poland. The first defense exercise took place…