Land of fighting in May-June 1940 and August 1944, symbol of national humiliation with the June 1940 armistice signed on its territory, the Oise was able to represent the collaboration with the departure of La Relève from the railway platforms of Compiègne, the repression with the internment and deportation camp of Royallieu, but also, through the action of the Resistance in its various forms, the refusal of submission.