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7. 34. The Vichy Government. Pete Arnold Dr. Sperry P.8 21 January 2010. 17. 15. Other Names. Vichy Regime 7 French State État Français Germany’s Puppet Government. 36. 15. Background. Gov. of France set up by Germans 10 Collaborated openly with Germans July 1940- September 1944 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Vichy Government
Pete ArnoldDr. Sperry P.8
21 January 2010
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34
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Other Names
•Vichy Regime7
•French State•État Français•Germany’s Puppet Government
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Background• Gov. of France set up by Germans10
• Collaborated openly with Germans• July 1940- September 1944• Led by Marshal Henri Philippe
Pétain
Pétain Hitler
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Causes of Vichy Regime
• German invasion of France (1940)8
• Premier Paul Reynaud elects Marshal3 Pétain to vice premier
• Raise morale• War Hero
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Causes of Vichy Regime• June 14, 1940: Germans occupy
Paris8
• France realized German army unstoppable
• What do we do?38
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Causes of Vichy Regime
• Paul Reynaud (French Prime minister)8
Vs.• Marshal Pétain (vice premier) and
General Maxime Weygand (Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces)
Vs.
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Causes of Vichy Regime
• Reynaud outvoted, resigns8
• Albert Lebrun now premier• Lebrun and Pétain immediately
begin collaborating with Germans• Reach armistice on June 22, 1940
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Franco-German Armistice• Divides country• Surrender all Jews in France to
Germany• French Army disbanded• Germany keeps French POW’s• French Forces can’t leave country• People told not to oppose German
efforts• France pays occupational costs
for German soldiers
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Vichy Regime Beginnings• Pierre Laval joins Vichy regime7
• Main architect of government• July 10, 1940: Persuades National
Assembly to put Pétain in power• Vote: 569 for, 80 against, 18 absent
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Vichy Regime Beginnings• Pétain assumes FULL legislative
and7 executive power• Supposed to draft new constitution• Never happened in 4 years of
existence17 45
Vichy Regime• October 1940: Pétain meets with1
Hitler• Offers his collaboration• French now working with Germany
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Vichy Regime• Slogan Changed7
• Before: “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”
• After: “Work, Family, Fatherland”• Labor charter passed
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Vichy Regime
• People become more and more upset2 with Vichy Rule
• Give into Germany’s constant demands
• Vélodrome d’Hiver rafle
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Vélodrome d’Hiver rafle• July 16-17, 19425
• Greatest mass arrest of Jews on French soil
• 13,152 Jews arrested, put in velodrome2
• Then deported to concentration camps
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Vélodrome d’Hiver rafle Kickers
• 1/3 of all Jews deported to Polish death camps in 19425
• 4,500 French police and gendarms
• French police not obliged to act
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Verdict on Vichy Quote
“Yes, the Vél d’Hiv, Drancy, Compiègne, and all the transit camps, these antechambers of death, were organized, administered, and guarded by French people. Yes, the first act of the Shoah (the Holocaust) was played our here with the complicity of the French State (the Vichy Regime).” French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, July 21, 20022
Vichy Regime• Germany now in
massive world war7
• Need better border security
• Allies land in Africa
• Nov. 11, 1942: Germany occupies all of France
• Armistice army disbanded
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Vichy Regime
• Vichy now holds little power, few bargaining tools
• Becomes tool of German government
• Pierre Laval put in power
• Pétain now mostly a figurehead7
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The Milice
• Vichy Secret Police• Led by Joseph Darnand• Helped with capture/torture of
Resistance• By 1944, had 35,000 members8
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Vichy Regime
• Resistance movements begin occurring
• Gestapo and Milice Vs. Resistance8
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Downfall of Vichy Regime
• June 6, 1944: D-Day invasions begin
• Vichy Gov. flees to Sigmarigen• Set up exiled rule726
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Downfall of Vichy Regime
• Allied forces along with Resistance free Paris
• Charles de Gaulle abolishes Vichy state and laws7
• Begin arresting/prosecuting Vichy leaders8
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Freeing of Paris13
End of Vichy Regime
• 1945- Laval tried and executedWar Crimes• 1945- Darnand tried and
executedWar Crimes823
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End of Vichy Regime• Pétain then flees
to Switzerland• Returns on own
accord• Sentenced to
death• De Gaulle
commutes it to life imprisonment
• Dies in jail in 19517
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Why was Pétain was elected?
• 1916- halts Germans at battle of Verdun
• 1918- appointed Marshal• 1926- concludes successful
Moroccan campaign• 1934- War minister in cabinet of
Gaston Daumergue• 1939- Name ambassador to Spain3
Why was he elected?
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He should not have…
• Expected to retire at start of WW1
• 84 years old in 1940
•Right motives, wrong friendships1
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Vichy Regime Conclusion
• Imprisoned 135,000• Interned 70,000• Deported 76,000 Jews• Sent 650,000 French workers to
Germany9 4
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