The French government is making available for the first time more than 200,000 documents on the Vichy government, which collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. The documents, which were ...

During World War II, the Vichy regime helped Nazi Germany deport 76,000 Jews from France. Robert Siegel talks to Robert Paxton about France opening up police and ministerial archives from the regime.

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 ...

“My France, it wasn’t in Vichy, it was in London as of June 18,” he said on French BFM television, referring to Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s Free French Forces headquartered in Britain.

A poster from the Vichy period shows a disintegrating France on the left, with words like "communism" and "Jewishness" causing the foundation to crumble. On the right are the words of Pétain's ...

When William Cognoli tries to tell people that in 1942 and 1943 pro-Nazi Vichy French officials were housed in the Hotel Hershey, he is usually met with disbelief. “They say, ‘You&#8217… ...

PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of files on members of the French resistance, communists and Jews hunted by the collaborationist Vichy government in France during World War II are now ...

France is opening up police and ministerial archives from the Vichy regime which collaborated with Nazi occupation forces in World War Two. More than 200,000 declassified documents are being made ...

PARIS – France is opening police and legal archives from the collaborationist Vichy regime, allowing free access to previously classified documents from World War II. The order, signed Dec. 24 ...

Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (left) and Philippe Petain (right), head of state for Vichy France, salute during the French national anthem during a meeting in Montpelier, France, March, 1941 ...