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    The French Forces of the Interior (French: Forces françaises de l'Intérieur) were French resistance fighters in the later stages of World War II. Charles...
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    Axis forces with the Free French Forces (Forces françaises libres), supported the resistance in Nazi-occupied France, known as the French Forces of the Interior...
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    of the Interior (French: Ministre de l'Intérieur; French pronunciation: [ministʁə də lɛ̃teʁjœʁ]) is a prominent position in the Government of France....
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    military efforts of the Allied Powers, Free French forces in London and Africa, as well as the French Resistance. Nazi Germany invaded France in May 1940....
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    The Provisional Government of the French Republic (PGFR; French: Gouvernement provisoire de la République française (GPRF)) was the provisional government...
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    Allegiance: France(République française), Free France(La France Libre), Service: French Resistance(La Résistance), French Forces of the Interior(Forces françaises...
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    The Free French Air Forces (French: Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres, FAFL) were the air arm of the Free French Forces in the Second World War, created...
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    The Free French Naval Forces (French: Forces Navales Françaises Libres, or FNFL) were the naval arm of the Free French Forces during the Second World War...
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    with the prior Free French Forces (Forces françaises libres or FFL) during World War II. The military force of Free France, it participated in the Italian...
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  • coordinated with the French Forces of the Interior under the authority of the Free French Generals Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle and their body, the Comité...
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    western France. The liberation began when the French Forces of the Interiorthe military structure of the French Resistance—staged an uprising against the German...
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    conquest of its empire, up to the Great War and the Second World War.  Belgium  France French Army French Navy French Forces of the Interior  Greece  Italy...
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  • to 1940, the French Third Republic was at war with Nazi Germany. In 1940, the German forces defeated the French in the Battle of France. The Germans occupied...
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  • August 1943 by the merger of the FFL and all other Free French units, principally the Army of Africa French Forces of the Interior (Forces françaises de...
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    The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France...
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    men of the French Forces of the Interior were added to the First Army, replacing many African troops. Eventually, more than 320,000 men would form the First...
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  • attack, evasion, maneuver, or retreat of armed forces. Interior line strategies are based on the fact that lines of movement and communication within an...
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    pillaged several of the surrounding villages, including Clavières. In the course of the battles, the French Forces of the Interior sustained severe losses:...
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    The Battle of Vercors in July and August 1944 was between a rural group of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) [maquis] and the armed forces of Nazi...
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    The liberation of Rennes, along with its surrounding settlements, took place on 4 August 1944 by the joint action of the French Forces of the Interior...
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  • Thumbnail for Alsace-Lorraine Independent Brigade (France)
    as the Brigade Malraux, was a French Forces of the Interior (FFI) unit that fought alongside regular French Army forces in World War II during the closing...
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    Maquis de l'Oisans (category French Maquis)
    activities against the German and Militia forces, the Oisans maquis was responsible for the French Forces of the Interior hospital for all of the Isère. A small...
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    Maquis (World War II) (category Pages with French IPA)
    foothold in France, the government of Free France attempted to unite the separate groups of Maquis under the banner of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI)...
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    with the National Police. The Gendarmerie is a branch of the French Armed Forces placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior, with...
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  • Organisation de résistance de l'armée (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    partisans to form the French Forces of the Interior, although it retained its autonomy. On the day after the defeat and the signature of the armistice in 1940...
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    of Police of Paris provides policing services directly to Paris as a subdivision of France's Ministry of the Interior. Within these national forces,...
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  • Thumbnail for French Foreign Legion
    The French Foreign Legion (French: Légion étrangère) is an elite corps of the French Army that consists of several specialties: infantry, cavalry, engineers...
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    participate in the advance to the Rhine and the invasion of Germany, using the French Forces of the Interior as military cadres and manpower pools of experienced...
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  • FFI (category Articles containing French-language text)
    tax preparation companies French Forces of the Interior (French: Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur), French resistance fighters during World War II Fuel...
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  • French department, the Resistance unified around a civil resistance structure (the Committee) and a military one (the French Forces of the Interior)...
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