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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 ...
As the historian Henry Rousso put it in The Vichy Syndrome (1987), Vichy and the state collaboration of France remains a "past that doesn't pass away". [ 182 ] Historiographical debates are still passionate and oppose different views on the nature and legitimacy of Vichy's collaborationism with Germany in the implementation of the Holocaust.
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.
Past collaborators were discredited and Gaullism and communism became political forces. De Gaulle led the GPRF 1944-1946 while negotiations took place for a new constitution, to be put to a referendum. De Gaulle advocated a presidential system of government, and criticized the reinstatement of what he pejoratively called "the parties system".
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 .
The Threads post, which has received over 1,000 likes as of writing, claims Texas has purportedly gifted Trump 355,000 acres of land for deportation camps. “Texas just gifted Trump 355,000 acres ...
Starr County, Texas, voted predominantly Republican this month -- for the first time in 100 years. Home to some 75,000 residents across about 1,200 square miles, it has a relatively small ...
The Milice française (French Militia), generally called la Milice (lit. ' the militia '; French pronunciation:), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy régime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II.