Unless the whole world was deceived, the Vichy Government last week squarely and publicly placed its bet on Germany to win World War II. Not only did it yield to Germany, which men in France today ...

PARIS — Some letters are decorated around the edges with flowers in colored pencil and crayon, the way little girls will do. But the words are about living in fear ...

In 1994, the French historians Henry Rousso and Éric Conan published “Vichy, un Passé Qui ne Passe pas.” While titled “Vichy: The Ever-Present Past” in the excellent American translation, the phrase ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! United States Army War College history professor Michael Neiberg talked about his research process for studying Vichy France, which collaborated with ...

The following is drawn from Yusuf Sevinçli’s book “Walking,” which was published in June by Filigranes Editions. A city reveals its secrets to those who pace about it ceaselessly—those who push open ...

In the Ardèche mountain plateau of south central France is a small village called Le-Chambon-sur-Lignon. This area, during World War II, was part of Vichy France, supposedly unoccupied by Nazi troops.

In 1940, after an intense six-week battle, the most formidable army in Europe was defeated by a much more flexible and aggressive German military. For almost 80 years, France has lived with its memory ...

A glance at the current best-seller list in France reminds us that not only will we always have Paris, we will also always have Vichy. Eric Zemmour’s “Le France Suicide” has just elbowed aside Valérie ...