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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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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 ...
Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), better known as Philippe Pétain (French: [filip petɛ̃]) and Marshal Pétain (French: Maréchal Pétain), was a French general who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944 ...