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Tag Archives: Italian Occupation of France
A Shield against Italy? Vichy and the Defence of French Sovereignty, 1940-42
In December 1941, the head of the Italian armistice commission for France, General Vacca Maggiolini, accused French police and functionaries in the unoccupied zone of being complicit in anti-Italian intelligence activities. In February that year, General Grossi accused the French authorities … Continue reading
‘A stab in the back’: Mussolini’s declaration of war against France, 10 June 1940
75th anniversary of Italian declaration of war against France Italian invasion and occupation of France often neglected Many in France saw it as a betrayal The Italian declaration of war against France on 10 June 1940 has often been forgotten or … Continue reading
Occupiers who became Liberators: Remembering and Forgetting the Italian Occupation of France
The Italian occupation of parts of France and Corsica never quite fitted the wider dominant narrative of the French struggle against the Nazi occupation. Concepts of occupation and liberation seem bizarrely inverted. After occupying Corsica for 10 months, when Italy … Continue reading
The Italian occupation of France, 1940-43: Responding to the threats of Annexation
On 4 December 1938, witnessed by thousands, the president of the war veterans’ association for Corsica delivered what became known as the ‘oath of Bastia’: ‘Before the world, with all our soul, on our glories, on our graves, on our … Continue reading
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A Battle to Remain French: Occupation, Resistance and Liberation in Corsica in the Second World War
70th anniversary of the liberation of Corsica Against threats from Fascist Italy, war became a battle for Corsica to remain French When war erupted in 1939, Corsicans mobilised against what many considered to be their ‘hereditary enemy’. Unlike most of … Continue reading
Dr Karine Varley | Historian | University of Strathclyde 