La Libération en Dordogne : de l’insurrection armée aux prémices de la reconstruction politique (juin 1944 - mai 1945)

The Allied landings on 6 June 1944 sparked an armed insurrection that led to the liberation of the département at the end of August. However, the fighting was not over for the people of Périgord, who continued the war in the pockets of the Atlantic and all the way to Germany. Political reconstruction got under way with the formation of Liberation committees, the purging of the population and the first municipal elections in 1945, which included women's suffrage. These stages in the...