Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - "Masu tsayayya" na farko ga sabon tsarin mulki sun kasance rukuni na 'yan makarantar sakandare na Lycée de Nice, yanzu, a watan Satumbar 1940, daga baya aka kama kuma aka kashe a 1944 kusa da Castellane. Zanga-zangar farko ta jama'a ta faru ne a ranar 14 ga Yulin 1942 lokacin da daruruwan masu zanga-zangar suka fita kan tituna tare da Avenue de la Victoire da kuma a Place Masséna. A watan Nuwambar 1942 sojojin Jamus sun shiga cikin mafi yawan Faransa da ba a mamaye ba, amma sojojin Italiya sun koma cikin karamin yanki ciki har da Nice. An ci gaba da kasancewa a cikin yawan jama'a, da yawa daga cikinsu su ne 'yan gudun hijira na Italiyanci. Koyaya, juriya ta sami ƙarfi bayan ba da Italiya a 1943 lokacin da sojojin Jamus suka mamaye tsohuwar yankin Italiya. Matsalar ta tsananta tsakanin Disamba 1943 da Yuli 1944, lokacin da Gestapo na gida da Milice na Faransa suka azabtar da 'yan tawaye da yawa. Kamfanin jiragen sama na Amurka ya yi wa Nice kai hare-hare sosai a shirye-shiryen saukar da Allied a Provence
(1000 ya mutu ko ya ji rauni kuma fiye da mutane 5600 ba su da gidaje) kuma yunwa ta biyo baya a lokacin rani na 1944.