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September |
Germans invade Poland
Great Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany
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Jacqueline marries Joseph d’Alincourt, a young officer in the French army stationed in Poitiers,
on the eve of his mobilization. They will see each other only a handful of times before Joseph is
interned in a POW camp in Nuremberg.
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June |
Italy declares war on France; government leaves Paris, arrives several days later in Bordeaux
Germans enter Paris, declared an Open City
Marshal Philippe Pètain forms new government
From London, Charles de Gaulle issues appeal for continued resistance to French population
French and Germans sign an armistice that divides France into two zones. Three fifths of the country is placed under German military occupation, the remainder controlled by a puppet French government set up in Vichy, about 175 miles southeast of Paris.
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July |
National Assembly at Vichy votes full powers to Pètain, who becomes head of state the next day, establishing the Vichy regime
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Printing an underground newspaper |
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October |
Vichy passes first statute on Jews
Shortly after meeting with Adolf Hitler, Pètain announces he is embarking upon “the path of collaboration”
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November/
December
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First clandestine newspapers appear
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March 25 |
Joseph dies in the POW camp, leaving Jacqueline widowed at the age of 21. Eager to put her life back together again, Jacqueline accepts a job in Paris.
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June 22 |
Germany invades Soviet Union, violating the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
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February |
Creation of what is to become the Militia, the French equivalent of the SS (an elite para-military unit of the Nazi party).
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March |
First Jews deported from France to concentration camps
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Autumn |
Jacqueline is seeking a way to be useful to the Resistance, when her roommate introduces her to a young man parachuted in from London. . He is coordinating clandestine air operations for the Resistance and the Bureau d'Opérations Aériennes (BOA). He gives Jacqueline code work. She translates field reports, giving coordinates for locations cleared for parachute and plane landings. She then delivers the reports to radio operators who transmit them to London.
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November 11 |
Germans occupy southern France, the so-called Free Zone
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