The Holocaust in France - Klaus Barbie, Vichy France, Germaine Ribiere, Vel' D'Hiv Roundup, Behic Erkin, Alois Brunner, Michel Thomas (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Klaus Barbie, Vichy France, Germaine Ribiere, Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, Behic Erkin, Alois Brunner, Michel Thomas, Operation Loyton, Drancy internment camp, Karl Bomelburg, Xavier Vallat, Eugene M. Kulischer, Helmut Knochen, Carl Oberg, Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Theodor Dannecker, Statute on Jews, Fritz Hartjenstein, Izieu, Jacques Correze, Heinrich Schwarz, Fort de Romainville, Mouvement Social Revolutionnaire, Charles Lescat, Chateau de Chabannes, Sons and daughters of Jewish Deportees from France, Devisenschutzkommando. Excerpt: Vichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic. It officially called itself the French State (Etat Francais), in contrast with the previous designation, the French Republic. Marshal Philippe Petain proclaimed the government following the military defeat of France by Germany during World War II and the vote by the National Assembly on 10 July 1940. This vote granted extraordinary powers to Petain, the last President du Conseil (Prime Minister) of the Third Republic, who then took the additional title Chef de l'Etat Francais ("Chief of the French State"). Petain headed the reactionary program of the so-called "Revolution nationale," aimed at "regenerating the nation." The Vichy regime maintained some legal authority in the northern zone of France (the Zone occupee), which was occupied by the German Wehrmacht. Its laws, however, were only applied where they did not contradict German ones. This meant that the regime was most powerful in the unoccupied southern "free zone," where its administrative centre of Vichy was located, until November 1942. After the land...