Description acceptable.One radio station during this period issued broadcasts bookended with coded information as part of its “personal messages.” In the aftermath of this period, thousands were tried for “national unworthiness” as part of the “legal purge” and the “savage purge.” A woman punished for engaging in “horizontal collaboration” during this period was the subject of a photograph by Robert Capa. The (*) Vel D’Hiv (“vell-deev”) Roundup was carried out during this period by a government opposed by guerilla groups known as the maquis. At the start of this period, one leader issued the Appeal of 18 June to galvanize resistance cells later organized under Jean Moulin. For 10 points, name this period during which the Vichy government was established in one country following its fall to the Nazis in 1940. ■END■
ANSWER: German occupation of France [accept word forms indicating France under the rule of Nazi Germany; accept the Military Administration in France; accept Vichy France or the Vichy period before read; prompt on World War II or the Second World War or the 1940s]
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