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See: [[History of France]]

See: [[History of France]]

[[File:Azov-bn.gif|right|400px|thumb|(left) French supported Azov Battalion; (center) Nazi Black Sun wheel; (right) SS Panzer Division ''Das Riech'' which committed the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.]]

[[File:Azov-bn.gif|right|400px|thumb|(left) French supported Azov Battalion; (center) Nazi Black Sun wheel; (right) SS Panzer Division ''Das Riech'' which committed the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.]]

The "Vichy" government largely cooperated with the German Nazi regime, namely in the plunder of French resources and the forceful deportations of tens of thousands of French [[Jews]] living in France to [[concentration camp]]s across Europe, and was even more completely under German control following the German military occupation of November 1942. Economically, a full one-half of France's public sector revenue was appropriated by Germany. After 4 years of occupation and strife, Allied forces liberated France from Germany control in 1944.

The "Vichy" government largely cooperated with the German Nazi regime, namely in the plunder of French resources and the forceful deportations of tens of thousands of French [[Jews]] living in France to [[concentration camp]]s across Europe, and was even more completely under German control following the German military occupation of November 1942. Economically, a full one-half of France's public sector revenue was appropriated for  the German war effort against the [[Soviet Union]].

 

The Waffen-SS Division Charlemagne was formed in September 1944 from French collaborationists, many of whom were already serving in various other German units. Named after [[Charlemagne]], the 9th-century Frankish emperor, it superseded the existing Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism formed in 1941 within the German Army and the SS-Volunteer ''Sturmbrigade'' France formed in July 1943.  The division also included French recruits from other German military and paramilitary formations and ''Miliciens'', who were created by the Vichy regime to help fight the French Resistance.  The SS Division Charlemagne had 7,340 men at the time of its deployment to the Eastern Front in February 1945. It fought against Soviet forces in Pomerania where it was almost annihilated within a month.

The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, four days after the [[Normandy Invasion]] commenced, was committed by the SS Panzer Division Das Reich which used the same Nazi Wolfsangel insignia adopted by [[Azov Battalion]], which 5th Republic supported with money, training and weapons 79 years later.<ref>https://twitter.com/PhilippeMurer/status/1500086419477389318</ref>  The Nazis massacred the entire village, 642 people, men, women, children, and the elderly allegedly for harboring resistance fighters and to make an example to other villages.  The village was afterward burnt.  The village was not rebuilt and remains in the condition the Nazis left it as a memorial.<ref>https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/oradour-sur-glane</ref>

The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, four days after the [[Normandy Invasion]] commenced, was committed by the SS Panzer Division Das Reich which used the same Nazi Wolfsangel insignia adopted by [[Azov Battalion]], which 5th Republic supported with money, training and weapons 79 years later.<ref>https://twitter.com/PhilippeMurer/status/1500086419477389318</ref>  The Nazis massacred the entire village, 642 people, men, women, children, and the elderly allegedly for harboring resistance fighters and to make an example to other villages.  The village was afterward burnt.  The village was not rebuilt and remains in the condition the Nazis left it as a memorial.<ref>https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/oradour-sur-glane</ref>

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