![]() ![]() After the gradual liberation of Vichy colonial territory by Free France, a National Liberation Committee was formed. They struggled with legitimacy vis-a-vis the German client state " Vichy France", which was the internationally recognized government of France even among the Allies. They worked towards France being seen and treated as a major allied power, as opposed to a defeated and then liberated nation. The " Free French Forces" was a section of the French army who refused to recognize the armistice and continued to fight with the Allies. ![]() Unlike the other governments-in-exile in London, which were legitimate governments that had escaped their respective countries and continued the fight, France had surrendered to the Axis. It was a member of the Allies until its defeat in the German invasion of France in June 1940. ^ France declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, two days after the German invasion of Poland.Following the outbreak of war later the same year, Beneš, in his exile, formed a Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee which after some months of negotiations regarding its legitimacy became regarded as the Czechoslovak government-in-exile by the Allies. In 1939 a German sponsored Slovak Republic seceded from the post-Munich Second Czechoslovak Republic, providing justification for the establishment of a German protectorate over the remaining Czech lands (the rump Carpathian Ruthenia-region being annexed by Hungary). ^ Edvard Beneš, president of the First Czechoslovak Republic, fled the country after the 1938 Munich Agreement saw the Sudetenland-region annexed by Germany. ![]()
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