Free France post-Axis victory?

I've been wondering. Assuming an Axis victory in WWII under whatever circumstances that may be in, what happens to the remainder of French territory scattered around the rest of the world? I can't imagine the Axis could have the power to conquer all that territory. Or am I wrong?
 
the "Africa" fraction in NSDAP wandet the former colonies of German empire back
and as adequate compensation also the africans colonies of there enemy France and Great Britain
but the "Africa" fraction was ignored by the top of NSDAP, and Hitler was obsessed of Russia
after even unlikely Axis victory, the third reich need some time to consolidate there conquered territory
what would include parts of north Africa coast

the French government-in-exile would take french Guyana as there home

and Ho Chi Minh would dream about to have free reign in Vietnam.
because the japanese Empire is the occupying power...
 
Would the French government be able to hold the remaining territories together? Might an Anglo-French Union possibly actually go through in some form?
 
Would the French government be able to hold the remaining territories together? Might an Anglo-French Union possibly actually go through in some form?

i don't think a union is possible.
And no, France lost its Asian colonies to Japan;
and Germany is going to take their African ones, its only a matter of time.

pretty much, in an axis victory France becomes a German puppet state.
 
If the axis is victorious there will be no free french... it will be called Vichy France.

Germany might keep some harbours on the Atlantic coast, but eventually France will regain control of most of its former territories (except some colonies in Africa (German Mittelafrika??) and Indochina (which goes to Japan).
 

Esopo

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i don't think a union is possible.
And no, France lost its Asian colonies to Japan;
and Germany is going to take their African ones, its only a matter of time.

pretty much, in an axis victory France becomes a German puppet state.

Im not sure about nazis wanting french colonies. Hitler didnt want africa, and they would have enough troubles keeping the whole central and eastern europe (even admitting that its possible).
Actually vichy france had a considerable degree of autonomy.
 
Im not sure about nazis wanting french colonies. Hitler didnt want africa, and they would have enough troubles keeping the whole central and eastern europe (even admitting that its possible).
Actually vichy france had a considerable degree of autonomy.

i do believe (eventually) hitler wanted all of Africa (mostly the british parts).
and its called vichy france for a reason, it was a puppet state; autonomy or not.
 
The outlook would be pretty grim, but maybe they'd try to cut a deal with the US in a sort of destroyers-for-bases Lend Lease style agreement in regards to their more distant territorial possessions. Or at least have Allied forces strengthen their colonial garrisons if not take direct military control
 
I figure the British/US/Canada would find it expedient to support some sort of rump government. One controlling the various scattered French Possessions in the Pacific and the Americas. Additionally I could see some support for organizing a Free French Army (Potentially with lots of American, Canadian and British Ex Pats) to try to seize control over parts of French Africa. There'd probably be a active business wherein French are smuggled out of Vichy France to Britain and then onwards.
 
i do believe (eventually) hitler wanted all of Africa (mostly the british parts).
and its called vichy france for a reason, it was a puppet state; autonomy or not.
Actually he didn't want Africa. In fact he wanted to give Egypt to Italy. He wasn't all that into conquering Africa. I think more of it would ultimately go to Italy, than Germany. But in a plausible Axis victory timeline, of course, Britain is going to keep all of its colonies.
 
I like the idea of a 'Union Afrique' being formed by the Free French in the wake of some sort of Axis victory in Europe. I doubt that anything in Africa would long stay in either German or Italian possession, sans perhaps small ports or forts on the coast and/or a greater Italian East Africa that has absorbed the Somalilanda and perhaps parts/all of Kenya.
 

Anaxagoras

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It's worth pointing out that, IOTL, the Polish government-in-exile continued to function in London until the end of Soviet domination in 1989.
 
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