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    Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by...
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    State", the Zone libre became known as the "Vichy regime" for the location of its nominal capital. The regime was headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain, who...
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    opposed the Vichy Regime, and supported the Allies, by helping Jews, and some sources believe that Algerian Muslims hid Jews from the Vichy Regime to keep...
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  • Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, which precipitated intense debate in France, and led to a paradigm shift in how the events of the Vichy regime...
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  • historians who restrict the term to a subset of ideological collaborators in Vichy France who actively promoted German victory. The term collaborate dates...
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    estate. In addition, the Vichy regime set strict limitations on Jewish people working as doctors or lawyers. The Vichy regime also limited the number of...
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  • Vichy syndrome (French: syndrome de Vichy) is a term used to describe the guilt, denial and shame of French people regarding the actions of Vichy France...
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    The Government of Vichy France was the collaborationist ruling regime or government in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War. Of contested...
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    the capital of Vichy France. As of 2021, Vichy has a population of 25,789. Known for its mineral springs since the Roman times, Vichy had become a major...
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    Liberation of France (category Vichy France)
    spa town of Vichy, in the southern zone libre ("free zone"). Though nominally independent, Vichy France became a collaborationist regime and was little...
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    captured the Sigmaringen enclave in Baden-Württemberg, where the last Vichy regime exiles, including Marshal Philippe Pétain, were hosted by the Germans...
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  • Pétain government in Vichy controlled the rest until November 1942, when Germany and Italy occupied the remainder. The Vichy regime then became entirely...
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    citizens. During World War II, Maurras supported the Nazi-collaborationist Vichy regime, believing that Free France was being manipulated by the Soviet Union...
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    invasion of the "Free Zone" (Zone libre) which was directly ruled by the Vichy regime. At the beginning of 1942, the numbers of the Armistice Army reached...
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    français (Vichy regime), these camps were used to intern Jews, Gypsies, and various political prisoners (anti-fascists from all countries). Vichy opened...
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    Révolution nationale (category Vichy France)
    promoted by the Vichy regime (the “French State”) which had been established in July 1940 and led by Marshal Philippe Pétain. Pétain's regime was characterized...
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  • component of the "National Revolution" ideology of Vichy. As early as October 1940 the Vichy regime introduced the infamous statut des Juifs, that produced...
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    civilian workers. On 22 June 1942, Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of the Vichy regime, announced the enactment of the relève, whereby French workers were encouraged...
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    Fernand de Brinon (category People of Vichy France)
    high official of the collaborationist Vichy regime. During the liberation of France in 1944, remnants of the Vichy leadership fled into exile, where Brinon...
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    Milice (category Political parties of the Vichy regime)
    1943 by the Vichy régime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II. The Milice's formal head was Vichy France's Prime...
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  • capitulation, France was governed as Vichy France headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain. From 1940 to 1942, while the Vichy regime was the nominal government of...
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    collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups...
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    military occupation of Vichy France carried out by Germany and Italy in November 1942. It marked the end of the Vichy regime as a nominally-independent...
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    Gaulle's command, although few in France knew anything about him.: 5–6  The Vichy regime had already sentenced de Gaulle to four years' imprisonment; on 2 August...
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  • enacted on 16 July 1940, barely a month after the announcement of the Vichy regime of Petain. On 22 July 1940, the Deputy Secretary of State Raphaël Alibert...
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    authoritarian Vichy regime, which considered itself neutral, the LVF's founders explicitly supported Nazi ideology. The LVF was tolerated by Vichy and received...
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  • France following liberation; Saint-Exupéry's works had been banned by the Vichy Regime. The story follows a young prince who visits various planets, including...
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    Moncef Bey (category People of Vichy France)
    Moncef Bey was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur by the Vichy regime. Nevertheless, his attitude on the throne was not one which France found...
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    War, Action Française supported the Vichy Regime and Marshal Philippe Pétain. After the fall of the Vichy Regime, its newspaper was banned and Maurras...
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    Battle of Gabon (category Military battles of Vichy France)
    over the radio to his compatriots abroad, calling on them to reject the Vichy regime and join the United Kingdom in its war against Germany and Italy. The...
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