France (German Heritage)

The French Republic (:République française), commonly known as France, is a nation located in Western Europe.

History of France
After broke though Franco-Belgian lines in March 1918 after the British, pressure began to amount against  to resign or sue for peace. Clemenceau resigned upon the German Success at the Second Battle of the Marne, on the 21st of March. He was replaced by Aristide Briand, who signed the armistice at, on the 1st of April. Paris, under German Occupation, soon erupted into nationalist and communist protests and strikes, which posed a considerable threat to the German Occupiers. In non-occupied France, general worker strikes also broke out, leading to the brutal persecution of any suspected communists. With both sides eager to finish the conflict, Germany and France signed the harsh in October 1918. As a result, Germany gained French Colonial Possessions, imposed large reparations, annexed land and withdrew from Paris. In March 1919, at the height of the crisis, a military nationalist faction led by Marshal Phillipe Petain overthrew the government in Toulouse (the government hadn’t moved back to Paris due to the revolutionary atmosphere there) and installed a provisional right-wing military government. Petain used the remaining French Army to purge communists, beginning in key urban areas in the south. These purges, finally united the formerly pacifist communists in their fight against the authoritarian government. Organised by, the communists armed themselves and took control of a number of communes in Paris. The Revolution quickly took hold of the capital, and by late-April, the Red Army controlled the whole of Paris and the neighbouring provinces. Petain’s situation was not helped from May to July 1919, when about 20,000 soldiers (roughly about a fifth of France’s entire mainland army) mutinied and joined the rapidly growing Red Army. The Radical-Right quickly joined the fight against the and formed paramilitaries, such as the,  and. The Red Army’s tactics of killing high-class citizens led to a great number fleeing southward, towards Petain’s government in Toulouse. By October 1920, the military was pushed out of Toulouse and relocated to Toulon. After the strategic Battle for was lost in January 1921, the French Government finally fled mainland France and went to Corsica and Algeria. The last pockets of anti-communist resistance were held in the richest parts of the French Riviera, where the Organisation française de protection fought the communists to allow the French emigre to escape to Corsica.

In 1936, France, the and the  formed the International Communist Alliance, a political and military union. Stalin, Antonio Gramsci and Maurice Thorez led the Stalinist-based alliance, which was opposed to syndicalists and Trotskyists.

France was promised the lost provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, the Calais region and Wallonia in exchange for joining the war against the German Empire and its allies in 1941.