Police collaboration in Vichy France was part of the Vichy government's external political objectives and emerged as an essential tool of collaboration in meeting its policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II.

Le régime de Vichy choisit la voie de la « collaboration » avec le Troisième Reich. Cette collaboration prend plusieurs formes : économique, policière et culturelle. À la suite de l' armistice du 22 juin 1940, la France métropolitaine est divisée en deux zones, la …

French soldiers were kept hostage to ensure that Vichy would reduce its military forces and pay a heavy tribute in gold, food, and supplies to Germany. French police were ordered to round up Jews and other "undesirables" such as communists and political refugees, and at least 72,500 French Jews were killed in Nazi concentration camps. [6]

In 1972, in an influential and important text entitled Vichy France, Old Guard and New Order, the American historian Robert Paxton complained of the absence of research concerning the police in France during the Second World War.1 This

2018年9月19日 · The film Joly made with Korn-Brzoza, "The Vichy Police", which will be broadcast Wednesday on French public television, has also obtained the only known photograph of the velodrome during the...

2025年1月29日 · L'Occupation et l' État français, né à Vichy le 10 juillet 1940, représentent une étape essentielle dans l'histoire de la police française. Celle qui peut apporter le plus à une réflexion sur la nature, les usages, les contradictions des pouvoirs de police, les tâches, les pratiques et les responsabilités des hommes qui les mettent ...

This book describes the events which shaped the police mechanisms of France during the Nazi occupation and attempts to show the dilemma of obedience to orders.

Empire for Vichy. In keeping with the anti-democratic model adopted by Pétain, political parties were banned in the Unoccupied Zone. Instead, Vichy attempted to integrate all political activity under one Pétainist movement. Given Pétain’s reputation as a saviour of France in World War I, the obvious base for the

The six months preceding the Normandy Invasion were a period of civil war in France between the members of the Resistance and the German Gestapo (secret police) aided by Vichy militias. When the provisional government of Charles de Gaulle moved to France after the Allied invasion of Normandy, it took over from a fascist regime in utter collapse ...

The Government of Vichy France was the collaborationist ruling regime or government in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War. Of contested legitimacy, it was headquartered in the town of Vichy in occupied France, but it initially took shape in Paris under Marshal Philippe Pétain as the successor to the French Third Republic in June