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#3. Italian Occupied Zone: including Savoy, Nice & Corsica. "...The Italian occupation was much milder than the German."

#4. & 5. Forbidden Zones: the coast along the English Channel and the Atlantic ocean and an area in the NE abutting the Occupied Zone. These zones were under German battlefield command and fortified against attack.

#6. Alsace and part of Lorraine were immediately annexed by the Reich, which tried to "Germanize" the population by expelling all those who wouldn't or couldn't assimilate. The tens of thousands of people expelled were given the choice of moving to Germany or the Free Zone. Most chose the Free Zone.

#7. The French POW camps in Germany: approximately 1.8 million men behind the barbed wire.

Along the seven zones, all civilian traffic, all telegraph and telephone communication were prohibited. To cross a frontier you had to have a Ausweis, a pass, from the German command.
Mail was forbidden as well except for specially prepared postal cards.