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Haberbusch, Benoît. "La Gendarmerie en Algérie : 1939-1945 /." Maisons-Alfort : Service historique de la Gendarmerie nationale, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39301185v.
Full textBurton, Kathleen M. "The Christian resistance in France during the Second World War : its uniqueness and obscurity /." View abstract, 2000. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1581.html.
Full textThesis advisor: Marie-Claire Rohinsky. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts [in Modern Languages]." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-101).
Boivin, Michel. "Les manchois dans la tourmente de la guerre, 1939-1945." Caen, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003CAEN1378.
Full textBéziat, André. "La diplomatie de l'entêtement : Franklin Roosevelt et la France (1939-1945)." Aix-Marseille 1, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997AIX10020.
Full textThe first part of this dissertation is a review of the american diplomatic and political situation at the beginning of world war ii, after president roosevelt, in his chicago address of october 5th, 1937, had reoriented the policy of isolationism, hitherto pursued by the us, towards its eventual abandonment. The second part leads up to the franco-german armistice of june 1940 which caused roosevelt to regard france as a second-rate nation. Us policy towards vichy and free france respectively is the subject of the third part, which ends with the severance of diplomatic relations between the us and the vichy government on november 9th, 1942. Thereafter, roosevelt and de gaulle were left face to face ; relations between them form the theme of the last part, which ends up with the death of the president on april 12th, 1945. After keeping de gaulle uninformed of the operations in north africa, the united states made a deal with darlan, petain's former deputy at vichy ; then, after his death, the american government championed general giraud. When de gaulle proved to be the unquestioned head of the french resistance and of the provisional government of the french republic, roosevelt refused to face up to the fact, considering that de gaulle did not have a mandate from the french people. He waited until october 23rd, 1944, before recognizing de jure the provisional gouvernment of france as a result of pressure from his allies and advisors. However, he later refused to invite de gaulle to the yalta conference. By his stubbornness in pursuing an unrealistic diplomacy aimed at becoming the arbiter of france's destiny, roosevelt initiated a feeling of defiance towards the unites states in france which certainly was his major failure, as it was later to prove detrimental to relations between the two nations
Haberbusch, Benoît. "La gendarmerie de l'Algérie de 1939 à 1945." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040132.
Full textAmong the original projects of the Gendarmerie new history, this Ph. D. Dissertation brings a double reflection through World War Two and the Algeria. From the 19th Gendarmerie Legion Level, this study aims at defining the role of Gendarmes in the context of war on a colonial territory. It is organized in three chronological parts. The first part focuses on the organization, the missions and the personnel of the 19th Legion in 1939. It shows a rather successful example of the Gendarmerie model used in Algeria where it had to adapt to local specificities. This presentation of the Gendarmerie prior to the Conflict contributes to a better understanding of changes to comes. The second part studies the consequences of the 1939-1940 campaign, the armistice of June 1940 and the establishment of Vichy's regime on the Gendarmerie in Algeria. This part provides a sharp comparison with the situation in France at the same period. Though they played a role in mobilization, Gendarmes in Algeria only saw war in the distance. Only a few witnessed the collapse of France as they served in Gendarmerie provost restrained the strength of the Gendarmerie. With the new Vichy government also came a personnel purge and a deep reorganization of the force. The third part covers the November 1942-December 1945 period. First of all, it offers an analysis on how Gendarmes reacted to the Allies' landing in Northern Africa. Indeed, the operation had a double effect ont the Gendarmes' lives. On the one hand it changed the political environment in Algeria, and on the other hand it took the Franch Northern territories back to war. Secondly, this part explores the rebirth of local nationalism seen through Gendarmerie reports. These reports also provide a great insignht in the role played by Gendarmes during the "Constantinois" revolts of May and the way the revolts were repressed
Abzac-Epezy, Claude d'. "L'armée de l'air de Vichy : 1940-1944 /." Vincennes : Service historique de l'armée de l'air, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36181723v.
Full textEbako, Éliane. "Le ralliement du Gabon à la France Libre : une guerre franco-française (septembre-décembre 1940)." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040051.
Full textFrom september to december 1940, Gabon was the theatre of military action between Frenchmen. These fights put to grips Gaullists and Vichysts. Coming from Cameroon in the North, and from Pointe Noire (French Congo) in the South, the Free French Forces rallied this colony, starting from inland, seldom by persuasion, most of the time by armed forces. Facing the authorities of this territory, which were stubbornly loyal to Vichy, General de Gaulle was compelled to go over to the offensive in order to break down the resistance of this colony. The point was to destroy this vichyst bridgehead so as to use this small territory as a back basis, in order to resume fighting at the side of the British Forces, especially on the Libyan battlefront. Libreville was the most important place for the operations of this civil war, which has been now willingly forgotten
Virgili, Fabrice. "Les tontes des femmes accusées de collaboration en France, 1943-1946." Paris, EHESS, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999EHES0062.
Full textVedel, Bonnery Audrey. "La France de la BBC, 1938-1944." Dijon, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005DIJOA001.
Full textLacour-Astol, Catherine. "La Résistance féminine : répression et reconnaissance (1940-début des années 1950) : l'exemple du Nord." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010IEPP0050.
Full textThe North of France, which was twice occupied by the German army, is an ideal area from which to examine the gender of the Resistance as well as the development of women’s constructions. This thesis aims at approaching the women’s Resistance and its representations, by means of repression and gratitude. The repression, as conducted by the OFK 670, revealed an earlier and diverse Resistance, the original feature of which lied in assistance. The repression also displayed the autonomy of women’s commitment to the Resistance. The majority of the female victims of the German repression have acted in an individual way. Nevertheless, the repression which touched them depended on sexual difference, through its chronology, its methods, its intensity. Post-war years were the time of a contrasted and ephemeral recognition. The political scene and field of honors opened up to the female members of the Resistance. Studying the different actors of gratitude (Resistance organizations, local powers, members of Resistance), its chronology – during the war, and once the war was over – and its cultural determiners, showed that women themselves represented the most important brake to the recognition of female resisters and women’s Resistance. Female members of Resistance had no interest in social recognition, thus they have ignored the step to obtain medals or status of « volunteer fighter of the Resistance ». At the same time, they have played a small role in the building of the Resistance memory, which can explain why, in the case of women, the figure of the victim competes with that of the Resistant
Namba, Chizuru Henriot Christian. "Occupation, colonisation et culture en Indochine, 1940-1945 rivalité et accommodements franco-japonais /." Lyon : Université Lumière Lyon 2, 2006. http://demeter.univ-lyon2.fr:8080/sdx/theses/lyon2/2006/namba_c.
Full textSaint-Martin, Gérard. "L'arme blindée française." Paris : Economica, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb369888178.
Full textIsraël, Stéphane. "Les études et la guerre : les normaliens dans la tourmente, 1939-1945 /." Paris : ENS, Éd. Rue d'Ulm, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41476542h.
Full textChauvet, Camille. "La Martinique pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale (1939-1943)." Toulouse 2, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985TOU20106.
Full textPuybouffat-Merrien, Rose. "Vichy et les femmes : ordre moral, contrôle social, accommodement et résistances : famille, jeunesse, travail." Amiens, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004AMIE0018.
Full textSoëte, Martine. "L'aryanisation économique : commissaires-gérants et administrateurs provisoires : Vichy, 1940-1944." Paris 1, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA010632.
Full textAbzac-Epezy, Claude d'. "L'armée de l'air de Vichy : 1940-1944." Paris 1, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA010637.
Full textThe Vichy air force was expected to disappear by the armistice conventions. However, the mers el-kebir and the dakar affairs brought it a temporary survival as hitler wanted france to keep a capacity to maintain its neutralism in Africa against the english and the Gaullist attacks. During the 1940-1942 years, the French air force slowly increased its power going through three phases of rearmament due to the military collaboration projects decided first at Montoire, then by the Paris protocols and the Saint Florentin meeting. Fights with allied aircrafts reached their peak with the Syrian affair in may-july 1941 and the allied landings in north Africa on november 8, 1942. Later, the German and Italian armies seized the French aircrafts on the French territory. However, the air force did not disappear but survived as an air defence army tightly controlled by the luftwaffe. At the liberation, after a hasty purge, this air force without planes was amalgamated to the French air force coming from north Africa and together participated to the victory combats. To study the Vichy air force gives elements to understand the Franco-German military relations during the occupation. Most of the all, it allow to better apprehend the adhesion mechanisms to the French state and to its policy of collaboration. The systematic exploitation of the historic department of the French air force archives and of more than two hundred recorded interviews shows how much the idea of collaboration, mainly in the military sector, was concealed by a revenge speech, and even by some underground actions maintaining the illusion of a double game until the end
Barten, Martin Johannes. "Frankreich und die Sowjetunion 1940-1945 : eine ungleiche Freundschaft : ein Beitrag zur französischen Aussenpolitik während des Zweiten Weltkrieges /." Hamburg : Kovač, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41015588n.
Full textHaberbusch, Benoît. "La gendarmerie en Deux-Sèvres sous l'Occupation /." La Crèche : Geste éd, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41025503n.
Full textKoreman, Megan. "The expectation of justice : France, 1944-1946 /." Durham : Duke university press, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37645674m.
Full textDreyfus, Jean-Marc. "L'aryanisation économique des banques : la confiscation des banques "juives" en France sous l'occupation et leur restitution à la libération, 1940-1952." Paris 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA010628.
Full textIancu, Michaël. "Vichy et les Juifs : l'exemple de l'Hérault /." Montpellier : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41244805p.
Full textGuillon, Jean-Marie. "La Résistance dans le Var : essai d'histoire politique." Aix-Marseille 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989AIX10017.
Full textThis study is above all political. It is departmental and regional and covers the period from 1940 to the present. After introducing the Var, it follows the setting-up of the Vichy regime and the formation of an early opposition, expressing itself by spontaneous acts, and the subsequent formation of resistance groups organised before the occupation. It shows how they fitted into the local republican spirit. The evolution of public opinion under the successive occupations, italian and german, and faced with accumulated contraints precedes the analysis of the three poles around which the whole resistance revolved : the m. U. R. , the forces backing them (socialists and free masons) and the institutional part they played, the intelligence network, as well as the o. R. A. And the s. A. P. , the obscure lead by the communist party. This resistance was at the origin of one of the first c. D. L. In france, but it was beset by increasingly bitter internal conflicts which gradually eroded the political and military hegemony of the m. U. R. This tension deepened in the spring of 1944 and especially after the mobilization of 6th june, during this memorable period of history
Rivière, de La Souchère Muriel. "De Dunkerque à Nuremberg : le rôle des Anglo-Américains dans la libération de l’Europe au miroir de la télévision française (1949-2009)." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010IEPP0010.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the representation of the part of the Anglo-Americans in the liberation of Europe on French television between 1949 and 2009. Cut out in three periods, 1949-1963, 1964-May 1981, May 1981-2009, this work shows the influence, throughout the years, of different factors on the account of this moment in history. The analysis sheds a light on the fact that the representation of the part played by the Anglo-Americans in World War Two does represent a memorial stake within the French society: the moving importance given to the Anglo-American role in the liberation of Europe is significant to the links bound by the French with this moment of their history. In this thesis also lays the question of the impact of external influences on the shaping of the television discourse and of the role of this media as a vector of history and memory
Líster, Enrique. "L' exil communiste espagnol en France et en URSS (1939-1950) : contribution à l'histoire d'une émigration." Poitiers, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002POIT5023.
Full textAvinen, Laurence. "La critique littéraire en France durant l'entre-deux-guerres : supports, méthodes, modalités d'exercice et conditions d'existence." Paris 10, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA100080.
Full textThe rapid development of the press during the inter-war period in France opened new perspectives to literary criticism while constraining it to adopt journalistic writing methods as well as modifying its approach toward contemporary works one criticism of the "literary columnists" verged on the more personal collaboration of the writers whose point of view was often partisan relative to their literary, political or religious choices. Meanwhile, the "professional" critiques used equally traditional criticism techniques inherited from the previous century and modern journalistic techniques but their ambitions continued to be limited by a system of production and distribution that relied on commercial practice. Thus criticism was characterized less by the new methods as by the strong position it occupied as an active and often braced mediating instance between production and the readers
Husson, Jean-Pierre. "La Marne et les Marnais à l'épreuve de la Seconde guerre mondiale /." Reims : Presses universitaires de Reims, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb369751193.
Full textDerdeyn-Quiot, Aurore. "Déportations et épurations dans le midi de la France (1942-1950)." Montpellier 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007MON30062.
Full textPictures of Nazi concentration camps, heaps of bones, emaciated men, people think they know about imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps. Women with shaven heads, executions, trials given a lot of media coverage, people think they know about purges. This study focussing on the departments of Alpes Maritimes, Gard and Pyrénées Orientales, tries to go beyond these cliches by unmasking people using a prosopographical and statistical approach as well as lists of names of people sent to concentration camps and purged. The chronological lives related by the very people’s testimonies and by the documents of that era broach the aspects of imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps then illegal purges para legal and legal ones not widely known
Courteaux, Olivier. "Les relations franco-canadiennes entre 1940 et 1946 : les relations oubliées." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040081.
Full textApart from General de Gaulle's state visit to Canada in 1967, little is known of the diplomatic relations between France and Canada. Yet, there has been diplomatic relations since World War I. .
Michelet, Louis-Christian. "Réflexions sur la Seconde guerre mondiale /." Paris (7 rue de Malte, 75541, cedex 11) : Athanor, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35508379z.
Full textDuverlie, Dominique. "Les Picards face à l'occupation allemande : le département de la Somme du 20 mai 1940 au 3 septembre 1944 /." [Amiens] : Bibliothèque municipale d'Amiens, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39216688h.
Full textRosenzweig, Laura Cochet François. "Le camp d'internement de Metz-Queuleu." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2006. ftp://ftp.scd.univ-metz.fr/pub/Maitrises/2006/Rosenzweig.Laura.HME286.pdf.
Full textAzéma, Jean-Pierre. "La France des années sombres, 1938-1948 : [thèse soutenue sur un ensemble de travaux : : rapport de présentation des travaux]." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987IEPP0019.
Full textRosenzweig, Françoise. "L'Oise allemande (25 juin 1940-2 septembre 1944) : impact économique et social dans le département." Paris 8, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA082299.
Full textThe Oise, one of the 95 main administrative divisions of France, was continually occupied by the german forces from june 25th, 1940 to september 2nd, 1944. The occupying forces' goal was to exploit the department's agricultural and industrial resources as well as its manpower. This exploitation took place in four steps : a disorganized looting until the end of 1940, a more rational spell of "modus vivendi" till spring 1942, an attempt to integrate the Oise department in total warfare up to march 1944, followed by the return of plundering from march to september 1944. It was also accompanied by the persecution, despoilment and extermination of the department Jews. Hit by bombings and acts of sabotage, from now deprived of means of transport and the whole of its production stopped, at the time of Liberation, the department has been bled white
Cochet, François. "Retour et réinsertion des prisonniers, déportés et rapatriés : l'exemple des champenois (1945-1954)." Reims, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990REIML001.
Full textBaruch, Marc-Olivier. "Servir l'État français : l'administration en France de 1940 à 1944." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996IEPP0008.
Full textQuestions of state were at the heart of the analysis made by the regime attempting to govern France from Vichy : to rebuild France meant first restoring the French state, an exercise whose importance had already been underlined by the new regime in adopting its name of "l'Etat francais". The working of the administration, an essential tool of government during this period poses three types of question. First, how and why did the civil service of the republic adapt to the "Révolution nationale" which was proposing, openly, to break with 70 years of republican tradition. Then one needs to know the extent to which the government could, would and knew how to get itself obeyed by its agents and to make them accept its model of the state. Here one is trying to measure how far the administration asserted its independence and how this affected the functioning of the state. Finally it is necessary to measure the role of the administration in the politics of collaboration, holding the balance between the restraints imposed by the Germans and the autonomy which the French government enjoyed, at least for its first two years. This thesis is concerned more particularly with four bodies. Three are at the heart of the state : the Ministry of the Interior, which controls at the same time the administrative organisation of the country and the police; the Budget Office ("Direction du budget") ; and the "Secrétariat general de la vice-présidence du Conseil", charged with the coordination of the political and administrative aspects of the state
Koulberg, André. "Les identités collectives : concept et stratégie (France-Allemagne) 1880-1945." Aix-Marseille 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AIX10047.
Full textCatala, Michel. "Les politiques françaises vis-à-vis de l'Espagne : rapprochement necessaire, réconciliation impossible, janvier 1939-aout 1944." Nantes, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995NANT3012.
Full textThe official recognition of franco's spain by france in february 1939 marked a new step in the contemporary history in french-spanish relatioins. The difficult circumstances due to world war il compelled successive french governments of all political persuasions to be constangly seeking better political, economical and cultural relations with spain. They pursued three main objectives : upholding the spanish neutrality, defending north-africa against franco's imperial claims, and preserving french interests in spain. The means of the french policy regarding spain improved considerably between 1939 and 1944, following political fluctuations, according to the power of the country, and under the constraint of the international context. From 1939 to 1940, the last governments of the iiird republic only managed to restore french interests in spain. But this was achevied at the expense of many concessions, symbolizing the country's weakness. The defeat in june 1940 reinforced this observation. The vichy government took cover behind germany to protect itself from spain's imperial ambitions. Petain could then shy away from franco's requests. But the absence of political settlement prevented a lasting development of cultural and economical relations between the two neighbours. From november 1942, the relations between spain and metropolitan france declined slowly, in spite of the german intervention in the foreign policy of vichy. The decline in the power of france was amplified by its divisioin. The foreign supervision allowed the three french entities to save the essentials in the face of franco's pretentions. In spain, de gaulle sought to impose free france's government, and progressively managed to regain a more independent policy regarding spain. But the liberation placed the country in front of a fundamental choice : either the necessity of keeping up relations with spain or the ideological
Michel, Raphaël. "Être préfet sous l'Occupation : un département de la zone Nord : la Somme (1940-1944)." Amiens, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004AMIE0010.
Full textThe analysis of the role and of the way the French prefectures were ruled under Vichy's regime is one of the most interesting issue in the current historical research. However, even if there are more and more studies on the national scale, there wasn't any studies so far on a regional scale. The Somme suited such a study : it was in the zone nord, divided into three parts, devastated by the battles of May, 1940 and occupied at a large level. The Somme was the area where there was the most important number of succeeding prefets at its head from 1940 to 1944. Therefore, il became relevant to see the constraints these factors provoked for the prefets and how these difficulties changed in the period. It was also interesting to study the motivations and the behaviour of the Somme's several prefets
Bellec, Audrey. "Les Parisiennes en 1939-1940, de l'évacuation à l'exode : un quotidien inédit." Paris 7, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA070055.
Full textThe May-June 1940 exodus represents the major popular event of the Second World War in France. Its existence has long been left in the dark as it is considered to be the symbol of defeat. The main aim of this study is to provide a social reading of events which have so far mostly been analysed from a military or politico-historical point of view. This study adds a gender dimension to the problem, showing that women were in fact the main actor of that event. Women, children and the elderly constituted the core of the frightened population that fled the German troops. In 1939-1940, the parisiennes are in constant motion: evacuated, expelled, choosing to move on, forced into emergency exodus, etc. The urgency and the direction of their movement depends on the current state of the conflict that opposes France and Germany. In spite of themselves, women find themselves on the forefront of the war, having to face a situation unheard of all social points of reference are gone, their responsibilities tenfold, their children and their elders in their charge. Millions of women become heads of family for an unknown period of time. They face a new reality: evacuation, exodus and repatriation
Floto, Mark Edward 1959, and Mark Edward 1959 Floto. "France 1940: the anatomy of a rout." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/558055.
Full textGillot-Voisin, Jeanne. "La Saône-et-Loire sous Hitler." Mâcon (rue de Strasbourg, 71000) : Fédération des oeuvres laïques, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36694236m.
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Vuong, Thomas. "Usages du sonnet européen (Allemagne, France, Grande-Bretagne, Italie) durant la Seconde Guerre-Mondiale (1939-1945)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCD089.
Full textThis study consists in a wide, comprehensive overview of the usages of the poetic form of the sonnet during the Second World War in France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy. Such a process aims at gathering close readings of sonnets, in order to highlight the mechanisms of a blooming form in the midst of a dürftiger Zeit. Many poets resort indeed to the sonnet in order to give a frame to a singular or collective experience of the chaos unleashed throughout Europe.The way these recourses to the sonnet interact with the role of poetry in a time of wide reception and collective crisis will be scrutinized in the light of political commitment, religious or ideological biases and the questioning of the former foundations of Western European culture, all of which can interfere in poetry’s proper motives.This work’s proposal is that the sonnet can be used as an ordered form, either to set a demiurgic stand in front of the chaotic situation of the continent, or so as to accept it. Neither poetic stances do necessarily lead to a disordering of the form itself ; however, both conservative and rejuvenating usages of the sonnet have in common the ability to deeply question poetry’s relation to the world
Chaix, Bruno. "Conception et déroulement de l'intervention des forces franco-britanniques en belgique au mois de mai 1940." Paris 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA010552.
Full textThis thesis analyses the background to the entry of the franco-british forces into Belgium on the 10 may 1940 to counter-attack the invasion of this neutral country by the Germans. The study focuses on the conception of the plan, itself the result of many strategic decisions taken between the two wars and of changes made during the phoney war, to reflect the attitudes of the Belgians and the Dutch who had remained neutral. After that, it describes its execution and explains why the plan failed with the allied being very quickly defeated by the german forces who prevailed over every strategic field. At the end of this analysis, the author suggests an explanation for this unexspected military defeat
Jarymowycz, Roman J. "The quest for operational maneuver in the Normandy campaign : Simonds and Montgomery attempt the armoured breakout." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=34742.
Full textThe Canadian Cavalry, prompted by Blitzkrieg's triumphs, effortlessly evolved into a tank force---virtually overnight. Canadian doctrine, however, was ersatz. Denied its own vast training areas, the RCAC was sandwiched into southern England and saddled with British warfighting techniques developed in the Western Desert. In Normandy, Canadian operational art was driven by Generals Simonds and Crerar, both gunners, who had neither the skill nor experience to conduct armoured warfare. Hampered by General Montgomery's inability to reproduce a strategic offensive comparable to that demonstrated on the Russian front, Allied armoured forces were squandered in mismanaged frontal attacks.
In the United States, the attempts to protect the horse forced a praetorian's revolt that ended with General Chaffee garroting the US Cavalry, eliminating it from future battlefields. The doctrinal dominance of the American Armored Force was subsequently threatened by a cabal under artillery General Leslie McNair who imposed the Tank Destroyer philosophy. Internecine squabbles and economic nationalism prevented America from producing a tank capable of meeting German panzers on even terms. Though failing technically, the US Armored force succeeded doctrinally via the Louisiana maneuvers and produced a balanced Armored Division. General Bradley's 12th Army Group arrived in France with a purposeful dogma that had been further refined at the Combat Command, Divisional, and Corps level in North Africa and Sicily.
American armour maneuvered during Operation Cobra but it did not fight massed panzers; this was soon redressed in Lorraine where American armoured doctrine reached tactical maturity. Canadian armour fought tank battles throughout Operations Spring, Totalize and Tractable, but it did not maneuver. American and Canadian armour's best opportunity for strategic victory occurred in Normandy. The Canadians, despite better tanks and favourable terrain, failed operationally and received no second chance.
Lorentz, Claude. "Les restitutions allemandes au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale : 1943-1954." Strasbourg 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996STR30001.
Full textAthe aim of this thesis is the study of the settlement of the important question for france of the german restitutions after world war ii. Its first part shows french and interallied plans between 1943 and 1945 within the framework of the studies of an armistice convention and then, the attemps of the four occupying powers of germany to elaborate a method of restitutions consistent with reparations. This part permit to know the deep differences of opinion between the french one part, and the american, the british and the soviets, other part. In the second time thesis exposes the execution of restitutions in the years 1945-1954, are successively scutinized restitutions of economic goods (industrial and agricultural), of monetary gold and transferable securities, of precious and artistic goods. The last chapiter gives a global evaluation at the year of 1954 and tries to estimat the impact of restitutions on french and german economies
Goldenstedt, Christiane. "Les femmes dans la Résistance." Herbolzheim : Centaurus-Verl, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2842449&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textPinsseau, Bine Mireille. "La peinture en Provence et sur la Côte d'Azur pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, septembre 1939 - mai 1945." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040019.
Full textFrom 1939 to 1945,the Provence and the Côte d'Azur were the place of work and of reception,not only for local painters,but also for refuges painters. .
Klingbeil, Pierre-Emmanuel. "Les Alpes-Maritimes : étude d'un front oublié : (15 août 1944-2 mai 1945)." Nice, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003NICE2024.
Full textThis study is a contribution to the commission "Nouvelle Histoire Bataille" set up by the "Centre d'Études d'Histoire de la Défense". The Alpes-Maritimes area, with its limited and unstudied geographical area, appears to be the ideal base for an analysis of a minor front in all its various aspects : geostrategic, geopolitical and operational. By bringing together the methodology and practices of the humanities, and by restoring the actual event over its entire duration, with reference to the past conflict, particular attention is drawn to the history of strategy based on the systematic and intertwined analyses of the various belligerents sources. The strategical analysis of this front can be divided into three parts. The first part deals with the problem of the perception of the geostrategic stake in the Alpes-Maritimes and the subsequent consequences at the time of the Liberation. The second part focuses on the campaign during winter, more particularly on mountain warfare. The study concludes with a new analysis of the French offensive in the spring of 1945
Baldenweck, Michel. "De la Résistance au rétablissement de la légalité républicaine en Normandie : histoire de la Seine Inférieure (1943-1946) de l'occupation à la Libération." Rouen, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ROUEL004.
Full textWe analyze the return to legality and Republican organization processes and decisions of the resistance and their effects in Seine Inferieure from 1943 to 1946. The study of the evolution of new political balance in the department since 1936 and is part of a description and analysis of new administrative and economic organizations : the regional prefects and intendants, the state police, specialized services repression against the resistance. We analyzed the main power groups : the Catholic Church, the Freemasons, the Jewish community, economic organizations, political parties, trade unions. . . It is also an analysis of the continuity of the state in the context of war, occupation, collaboration and the Liberation and during the purification. Particular attention was paid to the Resistance : its formation, its components, its business and its staff, its action at the exit of War, the establishment and functioning of the Departmental Commitee of National Liberation (CDLN) and local commitees (CLLN). We analyzed the output of War and the various problems facing the Seine inferieure and more generally in Normandy. The task of the authorities was immediately to face, once calm was restored, supplies in the clearing, sea and land mine clearance, reconstruction, the return of deportees and required the STO, the management of German POWs, restart the business activity, including the reopening of ports and rail links and waterways. Attention was paid to the political and administrative treatment, to that of businesses and the conclusions of the commission of illegal profits, internments, the courts of justice and civic Rooms were created in 1944