WI/ACH: Allied occupation of France

So, if things had gone differently, and the US/UK had put France under military occupation for the rest of the war in 1944 (Can be earlier POD), and a few years after World War 2 was over? How can this come to be? What affects would this have on WW2, and the Cold War?
 
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When is your POD?
Summer of 1940 when Germans first tried to invade?
Or
Summer of 1944 when WALLIES succeeded in invading Normandy?
 
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Asami

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Maybe some justification of 'collaborating with the Nazis is just as bad as being a Nazi'? Go the brutal Soviet-esque route. That could theoretically lead to the WAllies occupying France for some period of time and subjecting it to a similar-to-Germany Denazification, and installing their own domestic government and giving lip-service to Algiers?
 
If elements of the Vichy French military actively engage the allies between 1941 to 1944 (apart from side shows like Syria) then the French would have been treated with more suspicion than OTL. Perhaps significant French forces take part (probably reluctantly) in the war in the east and the Russians demand France be occupied.

Of course in such a scenario does Vichy French participation significantly alter the war? Certainly if there's a possibility of the French fighting the western allies in Normandy how does this effect the planning and execution of Overlord and the Normandy campaign as a whole?
 
Kill De Gaulle after the death of Darlan and you have Giraud aka "The Puppet" .

Or Kill De Gaulle during the German invasion. But there will be consequences, don't forget that the Free French play a part during the liberation of France and the resistance also.
 
The death of De Gaulle is the POD (They liked to kill De Gaulle, they dit it well 3 times ? 4?) in one of Jour J Bd and Giraud take control . France is divided in two, Paris in ruin and the money of the french governement is printed in washington ):
The main character of this BD thinks that it is the American who made the planes of De Gaulle crashed to have a more "responsible" chief of the Free French
 
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