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    were released or exchanged as part of the Germans' Service du Travail Obligatoire forced labour programme by the time the war ended. A final peace treaty...
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    Retrieved 18 December 2019. (in French) La fin du service militaire obligatoire Archived 8 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – La documentation française...
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    Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (category Military units and formations of France in World War II)
    battalions were subsequently split up and only reconstituted into a single formation in September 1943. For most of its existence, it participated in so-called...
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    Archived from the original on 14 January 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2012. Nom (obligatoire). "Extension en mer: Fontvieille ou Larvotto ?". Monacohebdo.mc. Archived...
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    landing of the Allies in North Africa. Vichy lost its military force, but continued to exercise jurisdiction over most of Metropolitan France until the gradual...
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    Luxembourg Armed Forces (category Military units and formations established in 1881)
    October 2022. Cerf, P. (1984). Le Luxembourg et son armée. Le service obligatoire à Luxembourg de 1945 à 1967 (in French). Luxembourg: RTL Editions. Spang...
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    en ligne. Articles d'Abzac-Epezy, Claude (2001). "La rénovation de la formation militaire dans l'armée de l'armistice". Revue historique des armées. 223...
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    transferred to Germany for compulsory labour under the Service du Travail Obligatoire (STO). The labour shortage was worsened by the large number of French...
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    military administration. Citizens were subjected to the Service du travail obligatoire, a program of forced labor in Germany. Jews and Roma faced the persecution...
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    Devoir (in French). Retrieved 6 August 2021. "Québec: Boycott du cours obligatoire d'éthique et de culture religieuse". Zenit. 23 January 2009. Archived...
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    Francophone Studies 3 (3): 151–163. ordonnance n° 68-92 du 26 avril rendant obligatoire, pour les fonctionnaires et assimilés, la connaissance de la langue nationale...
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    into hiding rather than report for the mandatory Service du travail obligatoire (STO) to work for German arms factories. In the south of France especially...
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    Solidarité Française. The party held a number of large rallies following their formation and adopted as the party flag a Celtic cross against a red, white and...
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    Spanish Maquis (category Military units and formations of Spain)
    Vichy regime established the Obligatory Work Service (Service du travail obligatoire, STO) for French citizens, with similar objectives: to provide manual...
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    Minister Pierre Laval create what will become the Service du travail obligatoire (STO). 5: Australian and U.S. forces defeat Japanese forces at Milne...
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  • Schools Bundesgesetz über die Weiterbildung, WeBiG Loi fédérale sur la formation continue, LFCo Legge federale sulla formazione continua, LFCo SR 410.2 – Act...
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    2009. Retrieved November 13, 2009. "Les cigarettes anti-incendie seront obligatoires en 2011". L'Express (in French). L'Expansion. AFP. Archived from the...
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  • Army of the Levant (category Military units and formations of France in World War II)
    officers and specialist non-commissioned officers (NCOs). French policy continued to favour the recruitment of specific ethnic and religious minority groups...
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    (1943) The voluntary relève, was replaced by the Service du travail obligatoire (STO) which began in August 1942 throughout occupied Europe. To Sauckel...
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    Joslen, H. F. (2003). Orders of Battle, United Kingdom and Colonial Formations and Units in the Second World War, 1939–1945. Vol. I (repr. Naval & Military...
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    Retrieved 6 July 2018. "Consulter les Bulletins des Annonces Légales Obligatoires (BALO)". www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 July 2018...
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    the French general in two world wars, 2008, McFarland & Co. "100 ans de formation des futurs chefs de la Défense" (PDF). Direction de l'Enseignement Militaire...
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    était couramment employé avant que l'instruction primaire ne fût devenue obligatoire. Gopnik, Adam (9 May 1994). "A Reporter at Large: The Ghost of the Glass...
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  • north and south of the landing beaches. The transport ships had lost formation as they approached Morocco, and had not regained it by the time they arrived...
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    World War (1914–1918), the system of "mandatory cultivation" (cultures obligatoires) was introduced, forcing Congolese peasants to grow certain cash crops...
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    government. It was initially a very strong supporter of Israel, voting for its formation at the United Nations. It was Israel's main ally and primary supplier...
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  • arm the whole FFI. More and more escapees from the Service du Travail Obligatoire were arriving from Éloyes and neighbouring communes; some were in fairly...
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    first three months of 1943, despite the determination of the Nazis to continue the deportations, and the opportunity created by the invasion of the former...
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  • to conscript young Frenchmen, ages 18—20 into the Service du travail obligatoire (STO; English: compulsory labour service), a compulsory two-year labour...
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    the 17,000 internees of Spanish origin arranged themselves in military formation in the sports field and sang La Marseillaise, followed by sports presentations...
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