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 ...

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 ...

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Netflix’s Transatlantic explores the story of how Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) evacuated thousands of refugees from Vichy France during World War II. This story is also a ...

Proclaimed General Charles de Gaulle: “The hour of supreme combat and sacrifice has struck.” In Algiers’ cobbled streets the ragged newsboys shouted: “Allied invasion!” “Is it France?” cried Frenchmen ...

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

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.

Last weekend’s European Parliament elections didn’t mark a decisive continental turn to the far right, as my colleague Bob Kuttner noted yesterday, but it did signal a menacing rise in support for ...

“NATIONALISM IS THE safeguarding of all those treasures that are at threat without a foreign army crossing the border, without the physical invasion of territory. It is the defence of the nation ...