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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 ...
United States Army War College history professor Michael Neiberg talked about his research process for studying Vichy France, which collaborated with the Nazis, and the Anglo-American relationship ...
The leafless little parks of Vichy seemed even more forlorn than before. The name Pétain might keep for many a touch of magic—a legendary gleam that shone out of the mud of Verdun. But the man Pétain, ...