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 ...

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 ...

The French Jewish novelist and essayist Léon Werth spent World War II, buffeted by history but shielded from its worst consequences, chronicling the passivity, inertia and gradual political awakening ...

As Bastille Day approached, the creased, oily, white-tied lawyer who steers Vichy-france toward the New Order made ready to go through a mummery with the old Marshal who is no longer strong enough 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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: France had an opportunity to throw a serious wrench in Hitler’s plans. France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 for complex reasons. The proximate cause, of course, was ...

A senior French official said Saturday legal action would be taken over comments made praising Philippe Petain, France's ...