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Vichy France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In World War II, the right-wing government of unoccupied France after the country's defeat by the Germans in June 1940, named after the spa town of Vichy, France, where the national assembly was based under Prime Minister Pétain until the liberation in 1944 ... © RM 2009. Helicon Publishing is division of RM.
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The flag of Milice Française (French Militia), a 5000-strong police force acting under the Vichy government and usually called simply Milice, was a square Tricolore flag with a large white circle in the middle, wider than the central stripe, fimbriated black, with a big, black Γ (Greek G letter) on it,
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The Vichy government kept troops in Syria during the Second World War. Its position on the Eastern Mediterranean coast made it strategically important for both Britain and Nazi Germany. The Allies also feared that Henri-Philippe Petain would allow the Luftwaffe to establish air bases in the country.
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The Vichy administration proved unable to enforce it's authority over distant colonies, many of which formally acknowledged the Vichy government for a while. The administration of French Indochina had to follow Japanese directives.
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The League of Nations Intelligence Agency ... Mission Europe Hostilities ... Pierre Laval was born in Chateldon on June 28, 1883. He has been educated at the University of Paris. He has been the French politician of France for some time now and he has served in World War I. He has been a member of the Socialist Party of...
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[Constitutional Act No. 2, France, Journal Officiel de la République française, 1940, No. 168; Constitutional Act No. 7, France, Journal Officiel de l'Etat française, 1941, No. 28.] ... CONSTITUTIONAL ACT NO. 2, DEFINING THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHIEF OF THE FRENCH STATE, JULY 11, 1940 ... Vichy, July 11, 1940...
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CONSTITUTIONAL ACT NO. 2, DEFINING THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHIEF OF THE FRENCH STATE, JULY 11, 1940 ... Vichy, July 11, 1940 ... See also: The Vichy Regime...
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