The town is a shock, a wild skyline of domes and minarets. Its elegant architecture is neogothic, neoclassic, neo-Alpine, neo-everything. At first sight, Vichy is a melancholy fragmentation of ...

Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and the author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.” LONDON — On July 23, 1945, Marshal Philippe Pétain, the ...

The French government is making available for the first time more than 200,000 documents on the Vichy government, which collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. The documents, which were ...

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France’s effort to fully examine the dark truths of its Nazi Occupation has gotten another significant boost with the unveiling of a document that exposes the activist role of the Vichy regime in ...

A controversial French journalist and historian’s latest bestseller claims that the collaborationist wartime Vichy government's role in the Holocaust has been misunderstood, and that it “tried to save ...

A poster from the Vichy period shows a disintegrating France on the left, with words like "communism" and "Jewishness" causing the foundation to crumble. On the right are the words of Pétain's France: ...

On July 17, 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech to mark the 80 th anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv roundup, the mass arrest of Jews by French police in Paris in July 1942. Without ...