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Author(s):	Charles River Editors

Date:	2024	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1983536210
Pages:	110	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Emerging from France's catastrophic 1940 defeat like a bedraggled and rather sinister phoenix, the French State  better known to history as Vichy France or the Vichy Regime after its spa-town capital  stands in history as a unique and bizarre creation of German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler's European conquests. A patchwork of paradoxes and contradictions, the Vichy Regime maintained a quasi-independent French nation for some time after the Third Reich invasion until the Germans decided to include it in their occupation zone.
Headed by a French war hero of World War I, Marshal Philippe Petain, and his later Prime Minister Pierre Laval, Vichy France displayed strong right-wing, conservative, and authoritarian tendencies. Nevertheless, it never lapsed fully into fascism until the Germans arrived to reduce its role to little more than a mask over their own dominion. Petain carried out several major initiatives in an effort to counteract the alleged decadence of modern life and to restore the strength and virtues of the French race. Accordingly, he received willing support from more conservative elements of society, even some factions within the Catholic Church. Following Case Anton  the takeover of the unoccupied area by the Germans  native French fascist elements also emerged.
While the French later disowned the Vichy government with considerable vehemence, evidence such as fairly broad-based popular support prior to Case Anton suggests a somewhat different story. The Petain government expressed one facet of French culture and thought. Its conservative, imperialistic nature did not represent the widespread love of liberty, fraternity, and equality also deeply ingrained in French thinking, but neither did it constitute a complete divergence from a national history that produced such famous authoritarians as Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte.
Of course, not all French people proved willing to surrender to the Nazi invaders, however. While large numbers collaborated  working for German or Vichy companies to provide for themselves or their families  and some wholeheartedly backed the new regime out of opportunism, fascist conviction, or other motivations, many courageous French resisted the Nazis and the quisling Vichy state. De Gaulle described them as being bound together by a taste for risk and adventure [...] national pride sharpened by the suffering of their nation and an overwhelming confidence in the strength and cunning of their own plot. [...] With him, it is [...] serving the Resistance and national honour, uncompromisingly demanding, wrote one. With him, we would have to get used to breathing the rarefied air of the summits. (Fenby, 2012, 109).
At the same time, despite the legends, the French Resistance never grew into a single unified organization. Rather, it remained divided in several major and numerous minor factions, each with their own philosophy and agenda. While these factions all shared the same goal  opposition to the Germans their Vichy pawns  they viewed each other with some suspicion and sometimes cooperated only grudgingly. One of the biggest divides ran between the Gaullists (and those who favored de Gaulle simply as a convenient, but temporary, banner to provide a unifying influence) and the communists of the PCF (Partie Communiste Francais). De Gaulle and his followers viewed the communists with profound suspicion, believing they harbored a wish for violent revolution and a totalitarian Soviet-aligned state, but needed their paramilitary skills and extraordinarily large cache of weaponry.
The History of France Under German Occupation during World War II looks at France after its downfall and the occupation that lasted until late 1944.
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