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Vichy government

Cultural

The government of France after Germany defeated and occupied it at the beginning of World War II (see fall of France); Vichy, the capital, is a small city in central France. The Vichy government was essentially a puppet of the Germans.

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The south was managed by France’s Vichy government, which collaborated with the Nazis.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2024

In July 1940, after the Vichy government in France signed an armistice with Nazi Germany, thousands of refugees fled to Marseilles to seek asylum in the United States or elsewhere.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023

The father of Micheline Tinader was among the 76,000 Jews deported from France under the collaborationist Vichy government.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2022

“This comparison is abhorrent,” said Joseph Szwarc, 94, a Holocaust survivor who was speaking on Sunday as France commemorated the victims of racist or anti-Semitic acts by the Vichy government.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2021

The Vichy government had collaborated with the Nazis.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

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