This week, France is making public some 200,000 documents from one of the darkest chapters in its history during World War II. In 1940, the army of Nazi Germany swept into France and occupied Paris. A ...
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 ...
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In France, praise for Nazi collaborator Petain prompts legal action, condemnation
Jewish umbrella group CRIF slams event honoring Philippe Petain, who led Vichy France and presided over the deportation of some 75,000 Jews The post In France, praise for Nazi collaborator Petain ...
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, ...
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 ...
Israel invoked a World War II precedent in trying to justify its preemptive strikes in Syria. During WWII, the Royal Navy attacked the fleet of its former ally to keep it from Nazi control. Both ...
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 ...
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, ...
The French government is making available for the first time more than 200,000 documents on the Vichy government, which collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. The documents, which were ...
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 ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! United States Army War College history professor Michael Neiberg talked about his research process for studying Vichy France, which collaborated with ...
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