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1940 - 1949

The company in 1944

  • The Javel plant is bombed.

  • The company graduallygets back onto its feet. Owning to the lack of electricity - or any other source of energy - to run the plant, Citroën workers and othersin the Paris region set to work to repair the roads, railways and electricity lines.

  • The first Citroën truck leave the Javel plant on 6 November.

  • Annual production : 2 318 vehicles.

In the news in 1944


  • In May, the French national liberation commitee sets up a provisional government under General De Gaulle.
  • The Allies bomb Germany.
  • On 6 June, the Allies land in Normandy.
  • Marseilles is liberated on 23 August, Paris in 25 August, Rouen on 1 September And Brussels on 3 September.
  • A conference is organised at Bretton Woods on international monetary policy.
  • Albert Camus writes Caligula.