Following France's military defeat in 1940, Marshal PÅ¥ain and his Vichy regime drastically expanded upon the role of a top secret organization known as the Postal Surveillance System. The organization ...
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Vichy France: The Forgotten Axis Puppet

Few chapters in World War II history are as contentious as Vichy France. After the 1940 defeat, Marshal Philippe Pétain’s regime ruled the unoccupied south while cooperating with Nazi ...
Former justice minister Robert Badinter will be inducted into the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris – alongside the likes of ...