Few chapters in World War II history are as contentious as Vichy France. After the 1940 defeat, Marshal Philippe Pétain’s regime ruled the unoccupied south while cooperating with Nazi ...

March 27 is remembered as the day 65,000 Jews were deported from Drancy internment camp in France to German extermination camps in 1942. The plot to move them was crafted by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf ...

Nov. 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1775, the United States Marine Corps, then known as the Continental Marines, was formed by order of the Second Continental Congress. In 1865, the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. PARIS — Hundreds of thousands of files on members of the French resistance, ...

After invading Poland in September 1939, Nazi forces turned their attention westwards. However, the German high command vetoed Hitler's plans for an immediate attack on France, pointing out that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.