When it was freed and unified again, a single history was created maintaining that the entire country attained freedom together under the leadership of De Gaulle this story was propagated through medals, ceremonies and titles,” explains Gildea, a professor of Modern History at Oxford University’s Worcester College. “France was defeated and occupied by Germany. Rather than calling it the French Resistance, this expert on the subject likes to talk about “resistance in France” because of the enormous amount of foreigners who joined the fight against Nazism – including thousands of Spanish Republican fighters.
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