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French Resistance
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collective term for organizations that fought against Nazi German occupation and collaborationist rule in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg
The French Resistance was a collective term for organizations that fought against Nazi German occupation and the governments that collaborated with Germany in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg during World War II. It matters as a significant movement of armed and civilian opposition that resisted foreign occupation and authoritarian rule in Western Europe.
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Vinony's link graph records 4,647 inbound references to French Resistance, and connects out to Operation Overlord, German military administration in occupied France during World War II and Free France.
It sits within the topics Anti-fascist organisations in France, Attacks on occupying military forces and French Resistance.
Vinony links it to 53 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- umbrella term
- Country
- France
- Chairperson
- Charles de Gaulle
- Location
- France
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- American officer and French partisan crouch behind an auto during a street fight in a French city. - NARA - 531322 - restored by Buidhe.jpg
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- P8168
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- Commons category
- French resistance
- topic's main category
- Category:French Resistance
- start time
- 1940-06-00
- end time
- 1944-10-00
- inception
- 1940-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1944-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Belligerents
Germany
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