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France History German occupation, 1940-1945 (Geographic Name)
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- German occupation, France, 1940-1945
- Vichy Regime, France, 1940-1944
Britannica Micro.: v. 12, p. 345 (Vichy France, formally French State, French Etat Français (July 1940-Sept. 1944), France under the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain from the Nazi German defeat of France to the Allied liberation in WWII)
Acad. Am. encyc.: v. 19, p. 571 (Vichy Government (1940-1944), a right-wing authoritarian regime, succeeded the third Republic in unoccupied French territory after Germany defeated France (June 1940) early in WWII)