Document, Strategic, Schéma participation française, TRES SECRET, 1944

Extremely rare genuine WWII Free French document related to the the preparation of the national territory and entitled Schéma participation française.

Bearing mention Très secret (Top Secret), this document details the architecture of coordination between the CFLN (French Committee for National Liberation), the SHAEF led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the military command of the French Resistance under the authority of 'General F', pseudonym of General Marie-Pierre Kœnig: administrative liaisons intended for the immediate restoration of French authority, commissioners of the Republic and civilian delegations, liaison detachments to allied units, structuring of the hotbeds of the Resistance, the area in which the military implementation of the Resistance was the responsibility of General F, and the articulation between internal action and allied operations.

In the spring of 1944, the CFLN, based in Algiers, prepared for the French participation in the Liberation. This document illustrates the desire to integrate the Resistance into a structured chain of command, to ensure the continuity of the State from the first liberated areas and to assert French sovereignty in the face of the Allied command, demonstrating the gradual centralization of the FFI (French Forces of the Interior) under the authority of General Kœnig.

Diagram drawn on the reverse of some Spanish Morocco map.

Good overall condition; shows some wartime annotations.

Format: about 12.80in x 17.70in.