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    Sigmaringen The Sigmaringen enclave was a temporary government-in-exile formed by remnants of France's Nazi-collaborating Vichy regime during the final...
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    Charles de Gaulle. The last of the Vichy exiles were captured in the Sigmaringen enclave in April 1945. Pétain was tried for treason by the new Provisional...
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    Sigmaringen Castle (German: Schloss Sigmaringen) was the princely castle and seat of government for the Princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Situated...
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    Sigmaringen district. Sigmaringen is renowned for its castle, Schloss Sigmaringen, which was the seat of the principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen...
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    then operated as a government-in-exile until April 1945, when the Sigmaringen enclave was taken by so-called Free French forces. Pétain was permitted to...
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  • Nazi-sympathizing Vichy government as a French government in exile at the Sigmaringen enclave. A government in exile may also form from widespread belief in the...
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    the French cabinet at Vichy were relocated by the Germans to the Sigmaringen enclave in Germany, where they became a government-in-exile until April 1945...
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    September 1944 from Belfort to the Sigmaringen enclave in Germany. Pétain took residence at the Hohenzollern castle in Sigmaringen. At first, Laval also resided...
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    Solidarity in Pierre Laval's government in Vichy, before escaping to the Sigmaringen enclave along with Vichy officials after the Allied landings in Normandy...
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    and the Danube (21 April 1945). On 22 April 1945, it captured the Sigmaringen enclave in Baden-Württemberg, where the last Vichy regime exiles, including...
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    collaborationist government. During the liberation of France, Pétain's government fled to the Sigmaringen enclave, where they awaited the end of the war....
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    the Vichy Government twenty miles deeper into Württemberg in the Sigmaringen enclave. Pash and his engineers, accompanied by the Sixth Army Group's Chief...
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    government-in-exile with the members of the former Vichy regime based in the Sigmaringen enclave. The PPF based itself in Mainau, set up its own radio station, Radio-Patrie...
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    regime and other collaborators who had gathered together in the Sigmaringen enclave. Doriot's PPF struggled to assume a leadership role within the French...
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    Dissolution Operation Overlord Liberation of Paris Siegfried Line campaign Sigmaringen enclave Fernand de Brinon Joseph Darnand Jean Luchaire Eugène Bridoux Marcel...
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    government in the Sigmaringen enclave. He received a promotion to Sturmbannführer on 1 November 1944. In April 1945, he fled from Sigmaringen to Merano in...
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    Pétain was forcibly moved to Belfort, and on 7 September to the Sigmaringen enclave in southern Germany, where 1,000 of his followers (including Louis-Ferdinand...
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    and the Danube (21 April 1945). On 22 April 1945, it captured the Sigmaringen enclave in Baden-Württemberg, where the last Vichy regime exiles, including...
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    French right-wing followers helped in the round-up, fled to the Sigmaringen enclave in Germany and became a member of the exile Vichy government there...
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    RNP, Roland Gaucher would also accompany Pétain into exile in the Sigmaringen enclave. The RNP had at maximum 30,000 members. According to the historian...
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    of white supremacism Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts Sigmaringen enclave, a short lived Vichy government in exile active from September 1944...
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    Dissolution Operation Overlord Liberation of Paris Siegfried Line campaign Sigmaringen enclave Fernand de Brinon Joseph Darnand Jean Luchaire Eugène Bridoux Marcel...
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    Marshal Philippe Pétain was forcibly moved to Belfort and then to the Sigmaringen enclave in Germany on 7 September; there, 1,000 of his followers (including...
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    November) and the Danube (21 April 1945). On 22 April, it captured the Sigmaringen enclave in Baden-Württemberg, where the last Vichy regime exiles were hosted...
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    travelling to the Sigmaringen enclave (place of refuge for Vichy authorities as well as the more famous French writer, Céline). It was in Sigmaringen that Rebatet...
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    role as German puppets, being quasi-prisoners in the so-called "Sigmaringen enclave" in a castle in Baden-Württemberg at the end of the war in May 1945...
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    Dissolution Operation Overlord Liberation of Paris Siegfried Line campaign Sigmaringen enclave Fernand de Brinon Joseph Darnand Jean Luchaire Eugène Bridoux Marcel...
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    began to write the novel in 1942 and continued to write it in the Sigmaringen enclave, where he fled together with the Vichy government in 1944. In 1946...
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    Dissolution Operation Overlord Liberation of Paris Siegfried Line campaign Sigmaringen enclave Fernand de Brinon Joseph Darnand Jean Luchaire Eugène Bridoux Marcel...
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