At that time , General Alphonse Juin was the chief of staff of the French army , but it was General François Sevez who represented France at Reims on 7 May , while General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny led the French delegation at Berlin on V-E day , as he was the commander of the French First Army . At the Yalta Conference , Germany had been divided into Soviet , American and British occupation zones , but France was then given an occupation zone in Germany , as well as in Austria and in the city of Berlin . It was not only the role that France played in the war which was recognised , but its important strategic position and significance in the Cold War as a major democratic , capitalist nation of Western Europe in holding back the influence of communism on the continent
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