Passions of the French: History of France since 1815
History 362; Fall 2002
Gregory S. Brown
"Strange Defeat" and World War II:
- The Maginot Line: http://www.maginot-line.com/index.htm
(Includes photos and films of Maginot line fortifications)
- More on the Maginot
Line: http://www.ifrance.com/letunnel/maginot-e.html
- Maps of the War:
http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/blitz/index.htm
- Map of French and German plans, 1940
- Map of conflict, May-June 1940
- Photos of Petain (in Vichy) and de
Gaulle (in London)
- Map of Occupied France; and another
map of Occupied France
- Vichy symbol: Gallique
Vichy
France website: http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/artsFrenchStudies/Kitson/Vichy/vichyres/
(Includes documents, images and links to other sites)
- De Gaulle
and the "Resistence" http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/en/dossiers/18june/
(The Call for "Resistence" on 18 June 1940)
- Educational
site on the Resistence: http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/pages/t022/t02291.html
(Includes photos and texts on "women in the Resistence" and "German
suppression of the Resistence")
- Enthusaist
site on the Resistence: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/5278/page7.html
(Images and documents)