Vichy government

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1. 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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Vichy government

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

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2024

“Changing a name does not change the roots,” she said, adding when asked, “yes, also an inheritor of Petain,” referring to Marshall Philippe Petain, who headed the collaborationist Vichy government in WWII.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

“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

By August 1941, she had established a headquarters in southern France and was passing along intelligence about the Vichy government and the underground resistance movement to her British spymasters.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2017

The Vichy government had collaborated with the Nazis.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012