Maquis du Vercors

Herausgegeben:Miller, Frederic P.; Vandome, Agnes F.; McBrewster, John

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The massif du Vercors is a prominent scenic plateau region in the French départements of Isère and Drôme in Eastern France. It was used by the rural Free French Resistance ("maquis") group, known as the Maquis du Vercors, as a refuge and a sanctuary for the French Resistance against the 1940-1944 German occupation of France in World War II. Many members of the maquis, called "maquisards" died fighting in 1944 in the Vercors Plateau. From 16 to 24 April 1944, the French Militia attacked the village of Vassieux in an operation of political repression: several farms were burnt and some of the inhabitants were shot or deported. Nevertheless, the local population kept supporting the Resistance. On 5 June 1944, the Free French government in London called upon the Vercors people to take up arms and slow down the German army on its way to Normandy this was part of a wider series of resistance uprisings. In his BBC speech, de Gaulle pronounced the famous line the chamois of the Alps leaps forth le chamois des Alpes bondit which was a signal for the 4,000 maquisards to begin the uprising.

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786131691409
• ISBN-10: 6131691401
• Artikelnr.: 29818792