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World War 1: Vichy France
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Moving through a wheat field in France, an American Marine enters battle during World War 1. This account reduces the horror of war and the experience of a hero-in-the-making to human terms.
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In 1905, 9 years before the start of World War 1,Alfred Graf Von Schlieffen devised a plan for the invasion of France through Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg. This became known as the "Schlieffen plan"
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Vichy France creates the Milice (Militia), under the command of Joseph Darnand, an extreme right-wing World War 1 veteran, to combat the Resistance. The Milice effectively becomes an arm of the German Occupation and reaches a strength of more than 20,000 by mid-1944.
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