After the Fall of France and the establishment of the Vichy regime in 1940, Allied leaders looked to target French colonial ...

French military forces in North Africa were under control of the Vichy French government. Under the terms of the June 1940 Armistice with France the military there was to be under the overall ...

The French army of 1940 included soldiers from across ... the propaganda of the French collaborationist government, based in Vichy. Numerous government programmes tried to encourage young French ...

How did Vichy France come to be? When France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, following the German invasion of Poland, the French military spent eight months watching and waiting for ...

German and Vichy propaganda repeated relentlessly that ... who they believed had abandoned the French army at Dunkirk and treacherously attacked the French fleet in the Algerian port of Mers ...

In 1940, the army of Nazi Germany swept into France ... he led a regime based in the French spa town of Vichy. The Vichy Regime administered most of Southern France while the Germans occupied ...