From Vichy last week came news that Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain was moving ever closer toward the “collaboration” that Adolf Hitler wants. The Marshal appointed a new Ministry in ...

Only in 1991 was he charged with crimes against humanity for his part, a major part as secretary-general of the Vichy French police, in carrying out some of the most notorious deportations. He had a ...

A new book and documentary have revealed the lengths to which the French wartime Vichy regime went to please the Nazis. The new research carried out by historian Laurent Joly and filmmaker David ...

It always seems churlish when the author of a book replies to a review—especially one as generously written as Ronald C. Rosbottom’s about my book “France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain” (“The ...

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 ...

France’s planned acknowledgment of Palestine’s statehood can be traced, first, to its collective guilt for its persecution, deportation, and annihilation of 73,500 Jews between 1940 and 1944 in ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Last week, Mayor ...

The French Resistance looms large in our collective memory of the Second World War. The chain-smoking, beret-clad partisan is a stock character in countless movies and TV shows; more soberly, the ...

Like the Vichy French during World War II, many in the G.O.P. feel they have no choice but to accommodate the president. By Robert Zaretsky Dr. Zaretsky is the author, most recently, of “Catherine and ...

A new book and documentary have revealed the lengths to which the French wartime Vichy regime went to please the Nazis. French wartime Vichy regime prime minister Pierre Laval, pictured on the right ...