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Jun 2, 2017 · When the war was over and the Germans were expelled from France, the Nazi collaborators were the first to be prosecuted and punished for their crimes against the French nation. A wave of pursuits of traitors occurred, followed by executions of those tied to the Nazi regime.
Nov 9, 2017 · Was Vichy France a Puppet Government or a Willing Nazi Collaborator? The authoritarian government led by Marshal Pétain participated in Jewish expulsions and turned France into a quasi-police ...
Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. It was named after its seat of government, the city of Vichy.
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. French collaborators with Nazi Germany (8 C, 66 P)
Jun 15, 2023 · After 9 months of fighting, including heavy, sustained losses, the Third French Republic signed an armistice with Nazi Germany. The new regime, headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain, was known as Vichy France.
Nov 24, 2019 · It is September 1944 and World War Two is coming to an end in France. Paris has fallen to the allies. The Germans are in headlong retreat. What to do then, if you have been a collaborator?...
Facing History’s new ebook, Complicity, Collaboration and Resistance: France under the Nazi Occupation, uses France as a case study to sort through how those individual and collective choices contributed to the Holocaust.
France had lots of armed forces in World War II, in part due to the German occupation. In 1940, General Maurice Gamelin commanded the French Army, headquartered in Vincennes on the outskirts of Paris. It consisted of 117 divisions, with 94 committed to the northeastern front and a commander, General Alphonse Georges, at La Ferte-sous-Jouarre.
Jul 10, 2020 · In July 1942, French police officers rounded up 13,000 “stateless” Jews in Paris and brought them to the Winter Velodrome. Other raids took place the following year across the south of France, and in eastern France in 1944.
