France Under the Jackboot – SOE, SAS & the French Resistance

We look at the experience of France under Nazi occupation during the Second World War from the Battle of France in 1940 to the terrible events of the Holocaust in France, as well as the use of SOE and SAS, and the role of the French resistance. We see where France was humiliated at Compiegne, see the Holocaust Memorial at Drancy, and go into Limoges to look at SOE Heroine Violette Szabo before seeing Oradour sur Glane where a whole community was wiped out. We end the tour in northern France seeing where members of the French Resistance were executed, now a moving memorial site.

You will stay for two nights in Compiegne, near Paris at a 3-star hotel, then two nights at the 3-star Ibis Limoges Nord and finally two nights at the 3-star Holiday Inn Express Amiens, or similar.