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Also Known As État Français • French State
Date July 1940 - September 1944
Location France
Context Franco-German Armistice • World War II

Did You Know?

  • The Vichy government enacted strong conservative laws that censored the press, prohibited divorce, and made abortion a capital offense.
  • Less than 3% of the Jews deported by the Vichy government survived.
  • As part of the V�lodrome d'Hiver raid, the Vichy government arrested and deported 13,000 Jews to camps, of whom 4,000 were children that the Gestapo had not demanded.

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atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Key People

Pierre Laval.
Pierre Laval
French politician and statesman
Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain
French general
Jean Decoux
French governor-general of Indochina
Georges-Etienne Bonnet, 1943
Georges-Étienne Bonnet
French politician
Camille Chautemps.
Camille Chautemps
French politician
Déat, c. 1940
Marcel Déat
French politician
Brinon, 1940
Fernand de Brinon
French journalist and politician
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
French politician
Alphonse Juin
French general
François Darlan
François Darlan
French admiral
Pierre-Étienne Flandin
French politician
Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of staff to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II.
William Daniel Leahy
United States admiral and politician

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