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Jul 27, 2026 11 min

France: Defeat, Occupation, and Resistance

from One War, Many Perspectives: 1939–1945 Hosted by Podlatino

France experienced the Second World War as a military defeat, a foreign occupation, and an internal fracture. This episode follows the collapse of 1940, the armistice, the division of the country, the Vichy regime, and everyday life under German control. It also explores collaboration, the persecution of Jews and political opponents, censorship, rationing, the black market, Charles de Gaulle’s Free France, and the growth of the internal resistance. From occupied Paris to the liberation of 1944, the story portrays a society shaped by fear, survival, collaboration, silence, and clandestine struggle.

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