The Historical Defence Service has kept the photographic collections of the State Secretariat for Former combatants since 2005. Within this group, the photographic archives of the Committee on the History of the Second World War (CHGM) represent a unique background. Attached to the Presidency of the Council, the CHGM was created in 1951 by the merger of two institutions: the Commission d’History de l’Occupation et de la Libération de la France (CHOLF), set up by government decision on 20...