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15. Will LA be renamed La Vichy?
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 06:08 PM
Jun 8

It seems as if we have some restless fascists looking for a victory at any cost.

But what exactly was the Vichy regime? Were they hapless puppets of the Nazis, or genocidal collaborators? Was it the lesser of two evils—the choice between partial and total occupation—or a government that reflected the will of the people?
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Within weeks, the Germans had pushed their way deep into France, and the French government was forced to make an impossible decision:
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The misconception that the Vichy Regime was the lesser of two evils endured only for the first few decades after the war. Since then, as more archival material has come to light, historians have gradually come to see the collaborators as willing participants in the Holocaust. Before the Nazis ever demanded the Vichy government participate in anti-Semitic policies, the French had enacted policies that removed Jews from civil service and began seizing Jewish property. “The Vichy French government participated willingly in the deportations and did most of the arresting,”




https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/vichy-government-france-world-war-ii-willingly-collaborated-nazis-180967160/

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