CRITIQUE - Ce livre collectif, écrit sous la direction de Laurent Joly, minimise le caractère plurivoque d’un régime aux ...

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain; By Julian Jackson; Belknap Press; 480 pp., $35.00 In October 1940, following a sharp and painful defeat to the Nazi Wehrmacht over the summer, Pétain shook ...

Behind the battle lines in North Africa, from beneath the deadening blanket thrown over all France by Hitler’s occupation of the Vichy zone, emerged the specter of French politics. The week’s events, ...

Jewish umbrella group CRIF slams event honoring Philippe Petain, who led Vichy France and presided over the deportation of some 75,000 Jews ...

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain, by Julian Jackson. Belknap Press. 480 pages. $35. Seventy-­two years after his death at the age of ninety-­five, Pétain remains a divisive symbol. To ...

Unless the whole world was deceived, the Vichy Government last week squarely and publicly placed its bet on Germany to win World War II. Not only did it yield to Germany, which men in France today ...

On a recent night in France, conservative journalist Eric Zemmour, author of Le Suicide Francais (French Suicide), was under attack on a talk show — again. The debate over Zemmour's book has ...

In biting verbal assaults viewed by millions, Claude Malhuret has issued a scathing critique of the American president, bringing a lifetime of experience to bear. By Roger Cohen Reporting from Vichy, ...

France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 for complex reasons. The proximate cause, of course, was the success of the German invasion, which left metropolitan France at the mercy of Nazi armies. But the ...

Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Center for Collaborative History to hear Renée Poznanski discuss her book, recently published in an English translation, Propaganda and Persecution: The ...