Following the liberation of Paris in late August 1944, Charles de Gaulle's Provisional Government of the French Republic formally established itself in the capital on September 1, symbolically ending four years of Nazi occupation and beginning the delicate process of restoring French governance and prosecuting collaborators.
Following the liberation of Paris in late August 1944, Charles de Gaulle's Provisional Government of the French Republic formally established itself in the capital on September 1, symbolically ending four years of Nazi occupation and beginning the delicate process of restoring French governance and prosecuting collaborators.