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Withdrawal of nationality for 15,000 people, 40% of whom were Jews. July 1940: Germans expel more than 20,000 Alsace-Lorraine Jews to the southern zone. September 27, 1940: Ordinance on the status of Jews in the Occupied Zone. A census of Jews ("the Tulard file") and obligatory sign "Juif" meaning "Jew" on shops owned by Jews.
Larkin, Maurice: France since the Popular Front: Government and People 1936–1996, Oxford University Press 1997. ISBN 0-19-873151-5. Melton, George E.: Darlan: Admiral and Statesman of France, 1881–1942, Praeger, 1998. ISBN 0-275-95973-2. Néré, Jacques: The foreign policy of France from 1914 to 1945, Island Press, 2001.
Collaboration in Poland was less institutionalized than in some other countries [29] and has been described as marginal, [30] a point of pride with the Polish people. [31] However, the Soviet Union did find some individuals who would work with them, and this is demonstrated notably by the Lublin government set up by the Soviets in 1944 that ...
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 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.
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 .
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The Germans did not, however. [4] Pierre Laval, a strong proponent of collaboration, arranged a meeting between Hitler and Pétain. It took place on 24 October 1940 at Montoire on Hitler's private train. Pétain and Hitler shook hands and agreed to co-operate.