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The armistice agreement concluded between Nazi Germany and defeated France split the country into half: • an “occupied zone” in the North. • a collaborationist “free zone” in the South led by Marshal Pétain, 84 years old.
The Allies landed in North Africa in November.
The Axis forces reacted then by invading the “free zone”: • the region of the Alps and Corsica were assigned to the Italian military. • the German army appropriated the rest.
Captions:
Abandoned populations, trust the German soldier!
No more bad days, Dad earns money in Germany!
French people! you are neither sold, nor betrayed, nor abandoned. Come to me with confidence.
The American and the English armies launch an attack on our North Africa.
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The small local Italian occupying contingent, whose the officers seemed to be only interested in riding, had requisitioned the isolated castel of Répentance.
It very few disturbed the lives of inhabitants.
The young priest of Meyrargues was in a network helping the Jews stalked by the Gestapo and the French police in the German occupation zone.
This chain clandestinely sent them to Switzerland.
He even hid for some time about thirty of them in a school camp close to the village.
His tiny bedroom sheltered for two months a Jewish German family escaped from “Les Milles”, a transit camp from where the trains left to Auschwitz…
Caption: “Les Milles” internment camp
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The Fascist Regime was decaying. Its successor signed an armistice with Allies at the end of September. Then the country switched sides.
The German army immediately invaded the South-East of mainland France: • most of the Italians crossed their frontier again, many in a big disorder. • some preferred to join the French Partisans. • others, who were captured, left to Germany in prisoner of war camps where they were viewed as traitors and so often mistreated. • in Peyrolles, a few captives evoided this far land by serving as domestic workers for the German officers on-the-spot.
After the successful Allied landing on July 10th on the littoral of Sicily, the German presence became important in the south of Corsica.
The local Resistance fighters, rallied Italian Units, and French Forces from North Africa freed the island at the beginning of October.
With its 17 airfields, Corsica became an Allied “unsinkable aircraft carrier” (renamed USS Corsica…) for aerial missions over southeastern France, Italy, and the Mediterranean Sea.
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The German soldiers that came to replace the Italian stayed in the four dormitories of the school camp where stalked Jewish families hid the last months.
Their officers lived in Trempasse Castle until early 1944 when the most of them were transferred to the Italian front line, at Monte-Cassino.
A machine gun on a hill controled a part of the plain.
The tunnel of Réclavier sheltered a K·5 railway gun with a range of 38 miles. An artillery piece at each end, a near anti-aircraft weapon, and a permanent German force protected it.
This gun had to pound the fleet which would try an attack of the Port of Marseille, 25 mi in straight line.
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The churchman of Meyrargues hid weapons of the Resistance in a forgotten Roman pipeline in a hill.
And he stored others below the altar of his church.
The attack of a road convoy between both villages killed two soldiers on November 26th.
The German repression of these “terrorist” actions was fierce. If their responsables were not killed or captured, civilians served as hostages. They were executed in reprisals in absence of tip-off!
Twelve men were jailed in consequence.
After endless talks in Marseille, the priest got the release of the six hostages of Meyrargues.
The six from Peyrolles will get out two weeks later.
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The great success of the landing in Normandy persuaded the Resistance of Provence that a similar action was imminent in the Southeast.
It was hunt down in its wait after the treason of French officer sent from London in order to train the Resistance fighters in sabotage.
The Germans will kill him instead of paying!
Progress was at first slow in the Norman land.
From August 10th, 1, 200 ships came from Italy and Algeria gathered in the South of Corsica.
On 14th at night, some of them seemed to land in Genoa then all rallied in the mist France.
Captions:
The Gestapo in Marseille
Caen destroyed up to 80%
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