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Extract from the Vassieux Travel Guides: It was around the village of
VASSIEUX
, 10km south of La Chapelle, that the fighters of the Vercors
maquis
suffered a bloody and bitter defeat at the hands of the SS in July 1944. During 1942-43 they had been gradually turning the Vercors into a Resistance stronghold, to the annoyance of the Germans who finally, in June 1944, decided to wipe them out. They encircled and attacked the
maquisards
with vastly superior forces and parachuted an SS division into Vassieux. The French appealed in vain for Allied support and were very bitter about the lack of response. The Germans took vicious reprisals and,...
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