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There is a Petain Road in Singapore in the Little India neighbourhood. Pinardville , a traditionally French-Canadian neighborhood of Goffstown, New Hampshire , has a Petain Street dating from the 1920s, alongside parallel streets named for other World War I generals, John Pershing , Douglas Haig , Ferdinand Foch , and Joseph Joffre .
This policy included the Bousquet-Oberg accords of July 1942 that formalized the collaboration of the French police with the German police. This collaboration was manifested in particular by anti-Semitic measures taken by the Vichy government, and by its active participation in the genocide .
The Government of Vichy France was the collaborationist ruling regime or government in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War.Of contested legitimacy, it was headquartered in the town of Vichy in occupied France, but it initially took shape in Paris under Marshal Philippe Pétain as the successor to the French Third Republic in June 1940.
Ohio State operates the richest athletic budget in the country ($275 million) and has one of the biggest student-athlete populations and sports sponsorships of any major conference school (about ...
Here are four reasons why the new version of the College Football Playoff worked – and the areas that can still be fixed. The committee picked the right teams, even if some games were blowouts
The SEC and Big Ten's brass held meetings Thursday to discuss the future format of the CFP, football and basketball scheduling arrangements and a post-House settlement way to govern college sports.
Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy, lit. 'Vichy regime'; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established after the French capitulation after the defeat against Germany.
The Vichy government, itself heavily engaged in collaboration, arrested around 2,000 individuals on charges of passing information to the Germans. They did so to centralise collaboration, ensure that the state maintained a monopoly in Franco-German relations and defend sovereignty so that they could negotiate from a position of strength.