Only in 1991 was he charged with crimes against humanity for his part, a major part as secretary-general of the Vichy French police, in carrying out some of the most notorious deportations. He had a ...
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Vichy France: The Forgotten Axis Puppet
Few chapters in World War II history are as contentious as Vichy France. After the 1940 defeat, Marshal Philippe Pétain’s ...
ÉPHÉMÉRIDE DU 30 OCTOBRE - Voici tout ce qu’il faut savoir pour bien commencer la journée… Aujourd’hui, on fête les Bienvenue ...
The French Jewish novelist and essayist Léon Werth spent World War II, buffeted by history but shielded from its worst consequences, chronicling the passivity, inertia and gradual political awakening ...
Unless the whole world was deceived, the Vichy Government last week squarely and publicly placed its bet on Germany to win World War II. Not only did it yield to Germany, which men in France today ...
A new book and documentary have revealed the lengths to which the French wartime Vichy regime went to please the Nazis. The new research carried out by historian Laurent Joly and filmmaker David ...
The French Resistance looms large in our collective memory of the Second World War. The chain-smoking, beret-clad partisan is a stock character in countless movies and TV shows; more soberly, the ...
The shaky old Marshal did not even know where he was going as his train chuffed out of the Vichy station and, gathering speed, bored through the darkness toward Occupied France. Feeling the chilled ...
Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Last week, Mayor ...
A new book and documentary have revealed the lengths to which the French wartime Vichy regime went to please the Nazis. French wartime Vichy regime prime minister Pierre Laval, pictured on the right ...
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