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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.
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.
This murky, three-plus year period of college athletics — the “NIL Era,” as it’s known — comes to an end, fittingly, with some of the sport’s most valuable programs battling for the ...
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 .
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
Kiffin managed to do more with less, early in his tenure. He usually beat the teams he was supposed to beat. The script flipped this year. With his best Ole Miss roster ever, Kiffin did less with ...
British historian Simon Kitson has shown that French authorities did not wait until the Liberation to begin pursuing collaborationists. 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 ...