France during World War II

3 September 1939 – 2 September 1945
|  Interwar France | Trente Glorieuses

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President(s)| Albert Lebrun
Philippe Pétain
Charles de Gaulle
Prime Minister(s)| Édouard Daladier
Paul Reynaud
Philippe Pétain
Pierre Laval
Pierre-Étienne Flandin
François Darlan
Charles de Gaulle

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Free French campaigns

Africa and Middle East

* Dakar
* Gabon
* Keren
* Exporter
* Kufra
* Bir Hakeim
* Run for Tunis
* Torch
* Tunisia

Europe

* Eastern Front
* Husky
* Corsica
* Monte Cassino
* Glières
* Ist
* Mont Mouchet
* Overlord
* Paris
* Elba
* Saint-Marcel
* Vercors
* Dragoon
* Toulon
* Marseille
* Lorraine
* Dompaire
* Strasbourg
* Nordwind
* Colmar Pocket
* Alps

Indian Ocean and Asia

* Réunion
* Crimson
* Indochina

North America

* Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Oceania

* Wallis and Futuna

France was one of the largest military powers to come under occupation as part of the Western Front in World War II. The Western Front was a military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany. The Western Front was marked by two phases of large-scale combat operations.

The first phase saw the capitulation of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France during May and June 1940 after their defeat in the Low Countries and the northern half of France, and continued into an air war between Germany and Britain that climaxed with the Battle of Britain.

After capitulation, France was governed as Vichy France headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain. From 1940 to 1942, while the Vichy regime was the nominal government of all of France except for Alsace-Lorraine, the Germans and Italians militarily occupied northern and south-eastern France. France was not liberated until 1944, when the allied invasion restored the French Government.

## Topics

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The following are articles about the topic of France during World War II:

* Maginot Line and Alpine Line of fortifications and defences along the borders with Germany and Italy
* French declaration of war on Germany—17:00 on 3 September 1939.
* Phoney War, or drôle de guerre ("strange war"), the name given to the period of time in Western Europe from September 1939 to April 1940 when, after the blitzkrieg attack on Poland in September 1939, there was almost no fighting, and no bombs were dropped.
* Maxime Weygand, commander-in-chief; little military activity between the defeat of Poland in October 1939 and April 1940.
* Anglo-French Supreme War Council set up to organize a joint strategy against Germany.
* The Battle of France in May and June 1940, in which the German victory led to the fall of the French Third Republic.

### Vichy France

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* Vichy France, the German client state established in June 1940 under in the non-occupied Zone libre, officially neutral and independent until invaded by the Axis in November 1942.
* Marshal Philippe Pétain, Vichy's main leader.
* Pierre Laval, head of government 1942-1944
* Vichy French Army
* Vichy French Navy
* Vichy French Air Force
* Milice
* Franc-Garde
* Groupe mobile de réserve
* Guard (Vichy France)
* Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon.
* Service du travail obligatoire \- the provision of French citizens as forced labour in Germany.
* Axis occupation of France:
* German occupation of France during World War II \- 1940–1944 in the northern zones, and 1942–1944 in the southern zone.
* The Holocaust in France.
* Italian occupation of France during World War II \- limited to border areas 1940–1942, almost all Rhône left-bank territory 1942-1943.

## Free France

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* Charles de Gaulle, the main leader.
* Free France (La France Libre), the provisional government in London who controlled unoccupied and liberated territories, and the forces under its control (Forces françaises libres or FFL), fighting on the Allies' side after the Appeal of 18 June of its leader, General de Gaulle.
* French Liberation Army (Armée française de la Libération) formed on 1 August 1943 by the merger of the FFL and all other Free French units, principally the Army of Africa.
* French Forces of the Interior (Forces françaises de l'intérieur) elements of the Resistance loyal to London and under its operational military command.
* Free French Air Force.
* Free French Naval Forces.
* French Resistance and the National Council of the Resistance which coordinated the various groups that made up the resistance.
* Japanese and Thai occupation of French Indochina \- beginning with the Japanese invasion in September 1940 and with the Franco-Thai War which started in October 1940.
* Liberation of France
* Operation Overlord \- the invasion of northern France by the western Allies in June 1944.
* Operation Dragoon \- the invasion of southern France by the western Allies in August 1944.
* Liberation of Paris \- the freeing of the French capital in August 1944.
* Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine \- advance (as the right flank of the western front) into Alsace-Lorraine in 1944.
* Western Allied invasion of Germany \- invasion (as the right flank of the western front) of Baden-Württemberg in 1945.

## Further reading

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* Kedward, Roderick. "France" in I.C.B. Dear and M.R.D. Foot, eds. The Oxford Companion to World War II (2003) pp 391–408. online at Oxford Reference.

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Beginnings|

* Armistice of 22 June 1940
* French Constitutional Law of 1940
* The Eighty
* Philippe Pétain
* Hôtel du Parc
* Zone libre

Participants|

* Joseph Antignac
* Jean-Marie Bergeret
* René Bousquet
* Louis Bourgain
* André Broc
* Alexis Carrel
* Jacques Charpentier [fr]
* Henry Coston
* Pierre-Antoine Cousteau
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* Philippe Pétain
* Pierre Pucheu
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* Paul Touvier
* André Tulard
* Xavier Vallat
* Maxime Weygand
* Carltheo Zeitschel

Governments|

* Government of Vichy France
* Pétain government
* First Laval government
* Flandin government
* Darlan government
* Second Laval government

Parties and
organizations|

* National Council
* French League
* French National-Collectivist Party
* French Popular Party
* Jeunesse Populaire Française
* Mouvement Franciste
* Légion Française des Combattants
* National Popular Rally
* Revolutionary Social Movement
* Peasant Corporation

Legal and
treaties|

* Anti-Jewish laws
* Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre
* List of constitutional laws of the Vichy regime [fr]
* French Constitutional Law of 1940
* Paris Protocols
* Riom Trial
* Service du travail obligatoire

Policy &
politics|

* Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
* Collaboration with Imperial Japan
* Foreign relations
* French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems
* La Jeune France
* Police collaboration in Vichy France
* Political situation in French Africa [fr]
* Révolution nationale
* Special Sections
* Vichy Holocaust collaboration timeline

Press and
propaganda|

* Antisemitic publications
* Censorship under the occupation [fr]
* Underground media in German-occupied France
* Freedom of the Press Ordinances of 1944 [fr]
* Le Juif et la France
* Maréchal, nous voilà !
* Newspapers confiscated for collaboration
* Office français d'information

* Press: L'Alerte [fr]
* L'Appel
* Aujourd'hui
* Le Cahier jaune [fr]
* Le Cri du peuple [fr; it]
* Combats [fr]
* Documents maçonniques [fr]
* L'Émancipation nationale [fr]
* La France [fr]
* France, revue de l'État nouveau [fr]
* Ici la France [fr]
* Idées [fr]
* Je suis partout
* Revivre [fr]
* Révolution nationale [fr]
* La Semaine [fr]
* L'Union française [fr]

Territory|

* Zone libre
* Occupied zone
* Syria and Lebanon mandate

| French North Africa|

* French Algeria
* Morocco
* Tunisia

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French West Africa|

* Ivory Coast
* Dahomey
* Sudan
* Guinea
* Mauritania
* Niger
* Senegal
* Upper Volta
* Togoland

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French Equatorial Africa|

* Chad
* Middle Congo
* Ubangi-Shari
* Cameroon

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Asia & Oceania|

* French India
* French Indochina
* Cambodia
* French protectorate of Laos
* Cochinchina
* Annam
* Tonkin
* Kouang-Tchéou-Wan
* New Hebrides

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Jewish
affairs|

| Laws|

* Law on the status of Jews
* Law regarding foreign nationals of the Jewish race
* Second law on the status of Jews

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Administration|

* Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs
* Order of Physicians [fr]
* UGIF

Roundups|

* French Riviera [fr]
* Green ticket
* Clermont-Ferrand [fr; it]
* Izieu
* Marseille
* Lyon
* Vel' d'Hiv
* Villeurbanne [fr; it]

Discrimination
and plunder|

* Aryanisation
* Nazi plunder
* Yellow badge
* Yellow badge in France [fr]

Camps|

* Beaune-la-Rolande
* Drancy
* Gurs
* Milles
* Natzweiler-Struthof (subcamps)
* Noé
* Pithiviers
* Récébédou
* Rieucros
* Romainville
* Royallieu-Compiègne
* Rivesaltes
* Septfonds
* Vernet

Deportation|

* Deportation convoys [fr]
* Deportation timeline
* Holocaust timeline
* The Holocaust in France

Military|

| Forces|

| Regular|

* 1st Regiment [fr]
* 7th Military Division
* 14th Military Division
* 15th Military Division
* Armistice Army
* Army of the Levant
* Air Force
* Navy
* Guard

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Militia|

* Service d'ordre légionnaire
* Groupe mobile de réserve
* Milice
* Franc-Garde
* Special Brigades

Auxiliary|

* SS Charlemagne division
* Carlingue
* Légion impériale
* Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism

Battles|

* 1940
* Mers-el-Kébir
* Gibraltar
* Dakar
* Gabon
* Indochina
* Franco-Thai War
* Ko Chang
* 1941
* Syria–Lebanon
* Saint Pierre and Miquelon
* 1942
* Madagascar
* Operation Bright Moon
* Wallis and Futuna
* Torch
* Anton
* Toulon
* Réunion

Officers|

* François Darlan
* Henri Giraud
* Philippe Pétain

Dissolution|

* Operation Overlord
* Liberation of Paris
* Siegfried Line campaign
* Sigmaringen enclave
* Fernand de Brinon
* Joseph Darnand
* Jean Luchaire
* Eugène Bridoux
* Marcel Déat

Aftermath
& Impact|

* Liberation of France
* Ordinance of 9 August 1944
* Provisional Government
* Épuration légale
* Épuration sauvage
* Municipal elections of 1945
* 1946 legislative election
* Fourth Republic
* Trial of Philippe Pétain
* Klaus Barbie trial
* Holocaust denial in France [fr]
* Mission Mattéoli
* Anti-Gaullism
* Vichy syndrome

History
& Media|

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* The Destruction of the European Jews
* Strange Defeat

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Film|

* Bombing the Nazis
* The Eye of Vichy
* Milice, film noir
* The Sorrow and the Pity
* Uranus

Fiction|

* Castle to Castle
* Section spéciale
* Le Silence de la mer
* Suite française

* Occupied France
* French Resistance
* Year in France
* 1940
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* Category:Vichy France

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Creation
and control|

* Charles de Gaulle during World War II
* Appeal of 18 June
* Departmental Committee of Liberation
* Empire Defense Council
* French National Committee
* French Committee of National Liberation
* National Council of the Resistance
* Provisional Consultative Assembly
* BCRA
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* Army of Africa
* Navy
* French Liberation Army
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* Bir Hakeim
* Gazala
* 1st Free French Division
* Companions of Liberation (List)
* Radio Londres
* Free French Africa

Domestic
operations|

* Movements:
* Combat
* Franc-Tireur
* Francs-Tireurs et Partisans
* FTP–Foreign Labour Force
* French Forces of the Interior
* Libération-Nord
* Libération-Sud
* Mouvements unis
* Musée de l'Homme
* National Front
* Ceux de la Libération
* Ceux de la Résistance
* Networks:
* Alibi
* Alliance
* Organisation de résistance de l'armée
* Brutus
* Comet Line
* CdL Cinéma
* CLD
* Fer
* Klan
* Mithridate
* Morhange
* Confrérie Notre-Dame
* Others:
* Armée secrète
* Organisation civile et militaire
* Jade-Amicol
* Jade-Fitzroy
* Maquis
* Vercors
* Women
* Housewives' demonstrations
* Union des femmes françaises

Underground
media|

* Bir-Hakeim [fr]
* Bulletin [fr]
* Combat
* Défense de la France
* Les Éditions de Minuit
* L'Espoir [fr]
* Franc-Tireur
* Front National
* L'Humanité
* Les Lettres Françaises
* Libération (nord) [fr]
* Libération (sud)
* Résistance [fr]
* Témoignage chrétien
* L'Union
* La Vérité française [fr]
* La Voix du Nord

Free
French
Africa|

* Brazzaville Conference
* Brazzaville manifesto
* French Chad
* Empire Defense Council
* Free French Africa
* French Cameroon
* French Congo
* French Gabon
* March battalions
* First [fr]
* Second [fr]
* Operation Marie
* Ubangi-Shari

Liberation
of France|

* Kieffer commandos
* French Liberation Army
* 1st Army
* 2nd DB
* General de Lattre
* General Leclerc
* Liberation of France
* Liberation of Paris
* Liberation of Strasbourg
* Provisional Government

Leaders|

* Charles de Gaulle
* Jean Moulin
* Emmanuel d'Astier
* Pierre Brossolette
* Charles Delestraint
* Henri Frenay
* Marie-Madeleine Fourcade
* Jean-Pierre Lévy
* Pierre Villon

Museums and
Memorials|

* Order of Liberation
* Companions
* Resistance Medal
* Medal of the Righteous
* Mémorial de la France combattante
* Museum of National Resistance [fr]
* Museums and memorials
* Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération
* Free France Foundation [fr]

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* Films
* Members
* Networks and movements
* Righteous Among the Nations)

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* Belgium
* Italy
* Luxembourg
* Netherlands
* Norway

Forces|

* Army of Africa
* Commando Kieffer
* First Army
* Cavalry Corps
* 3rd Army Corps
* 4th
* 5th
* 1st Armored
* 32nd Infantry
* Francs-Tireurs et Partisans
* French Forces of the Interior
* French Liberation Army
* French Expeditionary Corps Divisions:
* 1st Free French
* 2nd Moroccan Infantry
* 3rd Algerian Infantry
* 4th Moroccan Mountain
* Second Army
* French Forces of the West

Leaders|

* Charles de Gaulle
* Jean Moulin
* Winston Churchill
* Bernard Montgomery
* Henri Giraud
* Dwight D. Eisenhower
* Raymond O. Barton
* George S. Patton
* Philippe Leclerc
* Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
* Philippe Kieffer

Administration|

* Empire Defense Council
* French Civil and Military High Command
* French National Committee
* French Committee of National Liberation
* Provisional Consultative Assembly
* Provisional Government

French
campaign|

| Nov 1940|

* Battle of Gabon

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Jun 1941|

* Syria–Lebanon campaign

Dec 1941|

* Capture of Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Nov 1942|

* Operation Torch
* Tunisian campaign
* Battle of Réunion

Sept 1943|

* Liberation of Corsica

Jan 1944|

* Battle of Vercors
* Battle of Glières

March 1944|

* Liberation of Limousin

May 1944|

* Battle of Mont Mouchet

Jun 1944|

* Operation Overlord
* Battle of Carentan
* Battle of Cherbourg
* Battle for Caen
* Liberation of Limousin
* Tulle massacre
* Liberation of Guéret [fr]
* Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
* Maquis de Saint-Marcel
* Maquis de Saffré
* Battle of Ushant

July 1944|

* Liberation of Saint-Lô
* Battle of Mont Gargan [fr]
* Operation Cobra

Aug 1944|

* Battle for Brittany
* Rennes
* Saint-Malo
* Liberation of Brest
* Atlantic pockets:
* Lorient
* Saint-Nazaire
* Lioran [fr]
* Égletons [fr]
* Battle of Port Cros
* Battle of La Ciotat
* Provence landings
* Liberation of Toulon
* Liberation of Marseille
* Liberation of Paris
* Maillé massacre
* Liberation of Guéret [fr]
* Battle of Montélimar [fr]
* Liberation of Nice [fr]

Sept 1944|

* Battle of the Vosges
* Liberation of Nancy
* Operation Astonia
* Operation Undergo
* Atlantic pockets:
* La Rochelle
* Royan
* Dunkirk
* Battle of Arracourt
* Battle of Meximieux [fr]

Nov 1944 -
March 1945|

* Battle of the Vosges
* Battle of Alsace
* Liberation of Strasbourg
* Colmar Pocket
* Bitche [fr]
* Battle of the Vosges [fr]
* Battle of Bruyères [fr]

Apr 1945|

* Atlantic pockets:
* Royan

May 1945|

* Atlantic pockets:
* Dunkirk
* La Rochelle
* Lorient
* Saint-Nazaire

Aftermath|

* End of Vichy
* 1945 municipal elections
* Advance to the Rhine
* Invasion of Germany
* End of World War II in Europe
* Victory in Europe Day
* Victory Day
* Provisional Government
* Épuration légale
* Épuration sauvage
* Tripartisme
* 1946 legislative election
* Fourth Republic
* Trente Glorieuses
* Trial of Philippe Pétain
* Klaus Barbie trial

* WW II theatres:
* Atlantic
* Western Front
* Eastern Front
* Mediterranean and Middle East
* Pacific
* Sino Japanese

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General|

| Topics|

* Air warfare of World War II
* In Europe
* Blitzkrieg
* Comparative military ranks
* Cryptography
* Declarations of war
* Diplomacy
* Governments in exile
* Home front
* Australian
* United Kingdom
* United States
* Lend-Lease
* Manhattan Project
* British contribution
* Military awards
* Military equipment
* Military production
* Naval history
* Nazi plunder
* Opposition
* Technology
* Allied cooperation
* Mulberry harbour
* Total war
* Strategic bombing
* Puppet states
* Women
* Art and World War II
* Music in World War II
* Weather events during World War II

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Theaters|

* Asia and Pacific
* China
* South-East Asia
* Pacific
* North and Central Pacific
* South-West Pacific
* Indian Ocean
* Europe
* Western Front
* Eastern Front
* Mediterranean and Middle East
* North Africa
* East Africa
* Italy
* West Africa
* Atlantic
* timeline
* Americas

Aftermath|

* Chinese Civil War
* Cold War
* Decolonization
* Division of Korea
* First Indochina War
* Expulsion of Germans
* Greek Civil War
* Indonesian National Revolution
* Keelhaul
* Marshall Plan
* Occupation of Germany
* Occupation of Japan
* Osoaviakhim
* Paperclip
* Soviet occupations
* Baltic
* Hungary
* Poland
* Romania
* Territorial changes of Germany
* Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany
* United Nations

War crimes|

* Allied war crimes
* Soviet war crimes
* Atrocities against prisoners of war
* British war crimes
* United States war crimes
* German war crimes
* forced labour
* Wehrmacht war crimes
* The Holocaust
* Aftermath
* Response
* Nuremberg trials
* Italian war crimes
* Japanese war crimes
* Nanjing Massacre
* Unit 731
* Prosecution
* Croatian war crimes
* Genocide of Serbs
* Persecution of Jews
* Romanian war crimes
* Sexual violence
* German military brothels
* Camp brothels
* Rape during the occupation of Germany / Japan / Poland / Manchuria
* Rape during the liberation of France / Serbia
* Sook Ching
* Comfort women
* Rape of Manila
* Marocchinate

Participants|

| Allies|

* Algeria
* Australia
* Belgium
* Brazil
* Bulgaria (from September 1944)
* Canada
* China
* Cuba
* Czechoslovakia
* Denmark
* Ethiopia
* Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
* Finland (from September 1944)
* France
* Free France
* Greece
* India
* Italy (from September 1943)
* Liberia
* Luxembourg
* Mexico
* Netherlands
* Newfoundland
* New Zealand
* Norway
* Philippines
* Poland
* Romania (from August 1944)
* Sierra Leone
* South Africa
* Southern Rhodesia
* Soviet Union
* Tuva
* United Kingdom
* British Empire
* United States
* Puerto Rico
* Yugoslavia

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Axis|

* Albania protectorate
* Bulgaria (until September 1944)
* State of Burma
* Republic of China (Wang Jingwei)
* Independent State of Croatia
* Finland (until September 1944)
* German Reich
* Hungary
* Azad Hind
* Iraq
* Italy (until September 1943)
* Italian Social Republic
* Empire of Japan
* Manchukuo
* Mengjiang
* Philippines
* Romania (until August 1944)
* Slovak Republic
* Thailand
* Vichy France
* Guangzhouwan
* French Indochina
* French Madagascar
* Syria–Lebanon
* French North Africa
* French West Africa
* Collaboration

Neutral|

* Afghanistan
* Andorra
* Bhutan
* Ireland
* Liechtenstein
* Monaco
* Portugal
* San Marino
* Saudi Arabia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Tibet
* Turkey
* Vatican City
* Yemen

Resistance|

* Albania
* Austria
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Czech lands
* Denmark
* Dutch East Indies
* Estonia
* Ethiopia
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Hong Kong
* Italy
* Japan
* Jews
* Korea
* Korean Liberation Army
* Korean Volunteer Army
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Malaya
* Netherlands
* Northeast China
* Norway
* Philippines
* Poland
* Romania
* Thailand
* Soviet Union
* Slovakia
* Western Ukraine
* Vietnam
* Quốc dân Đảng
* Viet Minh
* Yugoslavia

POWs|

* Finnish prisoners in the Soviet Union
* German prisoners
* Soviet Union
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1939|

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* Battle of South Guangxi
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1941|

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* Greek famine of 1941–1944

1942|

* Fall of Singapore
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1943|

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