In 1940, after an intense six-week battle, the most formidable army in Europe was defeated by a much more flexible and aggressive German military. For almost 80 years, France has lived with its memory ...

What did soldiers eat on the frontlines? What happened to the French Foreign Legion? And how is the legacy of Alfred Dreyfus ...

In just six weeks in 1940, Germany crushed France, while the Vichy regime and Allies planned the first major American strike ...

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 ...

An incident in which Vichy France police officials during World War II deported Jewish children above and beyond Nazi requests was reported last weekend by the French news magazine L’Express. Although ...

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 ...

Almost 50 years ago, Robert Paxton published his influential “Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944.” The book awakened readers to the shock of how close France came to becoming an ...

The official Vichy radio today indicated that Archbishop Saliege of Toulouse was no longer considered “persona grata” in unoccupied France because of his denunciation of the deportation of Jews. Mgr.

A glance at the current best-seller list in France reminds us that not only will we always have Paris, we will also always have Vichy. Eric Zemmour’s “Le France Suicide” has just elbowed aside Valérie ...

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