On this Day in 1942, Nazi German Troops Take Vichy France

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NAZI Collaborator French Gen. Philippe Petain hangs out with Adolf Hitler

On November 10, 1942, German troops occupy Vichy France, which had previously been free of an Axis military presence.

Since July 1940, upon being invaded and defeated by Nazi German forces, the autonomous French state had been split into two regions. One was occupied by German troops, and the other was unoccupied, governed by a more or less puppet regime centered in Vichy, a spa region about 200 miles southeast of Paris, and led by Gen. Philippe Petain, a World War I hero.

Publicly, Petain declared that Germany and France had a common goal, “the defeat of England.” Privately, the French general hoped that by playing mediator between the Axis power and his fellow countrymen, he could keep German troops out of Vichy France while surreptitiously aiding the antifascist Resistance movement.

Petain’s compromises became irrelevant within two years. When Allied forces arrived in North Africa to team up with the Free French Forces to beat back the Axis occupiers, French naval crews, emboldened by the Allied initiative, scuttled the French fleet off Toulon, in southeastern France, to keep it from being used by those same Axis powers, Hitler retaliated.



In violation of the 1940 armistice agreement, German troops moved into southeastern Vichy, France. From that point forward, Petain became virtually useless, and France was merely a future gateway for the Allied counteroffensive in Western Europe, namely, D-Day.

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  1. For years I am following VT in Germany very closely because of its fearless plain-speaking. Quite contrary to the otherwise usual clear-sightedness of VT, this time the author surfs on the wave of brainwashing.
    Is this the surrender of VT to the Khazarian slur?

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