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.