Coming home to liberated France (World War II)

Coming home to liberated France (World War II) describes the repatriation of almost 2 million French citizens present in Nazi Germany near the end of the war in 1945. The returnees included more than one million prisoners of war (POWs) captured when France was defeated by German in 1940, 600,000 or more workers, both male and female, some of whom had volunteered but more who were coerced into working in Germany during the war, and 200,000 political deportees made up mostly of resisters to the German occupation of France and French Jews.

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