The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by the German occupation during World War II, because it ...
With a new introduction and updated bibliography, "Vichy France" demonstrates that the collaborationist government of Marshal Pétain did far more than merely react to German pressures. The Vichy ...
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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 regime ruled the unoccupied south while cooperating with Nazi ...
It was Riom reversed. In 1942 Vichy-france had brought the fallen Third Republic to trial. Now, in Paris, a representative of fallen Vichy stood before the High Court of the “Fourth Republic.” The ...
Eleven men sat in the prisoners’ dock in a narrow Algiers courtroom. They were servants of Vichy—the officers and guards of a concentration camp in North Africa, now indicted and on trial for murder ...