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This book presents the truth of Vichy; that in the interests of stability, national feeling favored collaboration with the German-controlled regime. The author concludes that a coalition of the losers and victims of the Third French Republic seized the opportunity offered by defeat in 1940 to try to impose their vision of France on a population that was, at least at first, willing if not enthusiastic partners in a "national revolution."
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"Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856? 23 July 1951), generally known as Philippe Pétain (French: [fi.lip pe.t̃]) or Marshal Pétain (Maréchal Pétain) or The Lion of Verdun, was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français), from 1940 to 1944. Pétain, who was 84 years old in 1940, ranks as France's oldest head of state."--Wikipedia....
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"Vichy France, officially the French State (État français), was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II, from the German victory in the Battle of France (July 1940) to the Allied liberation in August 1944. Following the defeat in June 1940, President Albert Lebrun appointed Marshal Pétain as Premier of France. After making peace with Germany, Pétain and his government voted to reorganize the discredited Third...
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"The fall of France in 1940 panicked US leaders, leading to their fateful decision to recognize the pro-Nazi Vichy government. Michael S. Neiberg takes readers back to the fraught early years of World War II, when America's misguided policy on Vichy alienated its British ally and ensured tensions with Charles de Gaulle and the postwar French Republic"--
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"In the aftermath of World War II, historical accounts and public commentaries enshrined the French Resistance as an apolitical, unified movement committed to upholding human rights, equality, and republican values during the dark period of German occupation. Valerie Deacon complicates that conventional view by uncovering extreme-right participants in the Resistance, specifically those who engaged in conspiratorial, anti-republican, and quasi-fascist...
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