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He was among the historians who challenged national myths about the compromises his country made after being occupied by ...

The French authorities have decided to abandon two symbols of culture, dignity and morality of the French state and people — ...

Laurent Joly, CNRS research director and specialist on Vichy France, recently found himself at the centre of a high-profile ...

In the aftermath of the war, the Vichy city council sought to restore the town's status as the 'capital of thermal spas.' At ...

Henry and Peter Dombrowski, two brothers from Gary, were killed during World War II and are forever buried side-by-side at ...

Victory Day is, in the French case, not only a celebration of the victory over fascism but also a rebirth after years of humiliating collaborationism. There are at least two Victory Days in Europe or ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

On Saturday, July 14, 1945, Versailles was celebrating as it had not done in years. But the carefree spirit of some clashed ...

During World War II, an exasperated Winston Churchill observed that “there ... including relations with Nationalist China and Vichy France, the vexatious issue of neutral Ireland, and the ...

WASHINGTON – The family of a Jewish Iranian Holocaust survivor donated his detailed diary of survival from incarceration camps in Vichy France to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today. The ...