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Bookmark or Share- Was Vichy France a Puppet Government or a Willing Nazi ...Adolf Hitler (right) shakes hands with Philippe Pétain (left), the leader of the Vichy government. Wikimedia Commons. How did Vichy France come to be? When France declared war on Germany on ...
- Philippe Pétain - WikipediaPhilippe Pétain. Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), commonly known as Philippe Pétain ( / peɪˈtæ̃ /, French: [filip petɛ̃]) or Marshal Pétain (French: Maréchal Pétain ), was a French general who commanded the French Army in World War I and became the head of the collaborationist regime of ...
- Philippe Pétain | WWI Hero, French General & Vichy LeaderPhilippe Pétain (born April 24, 1856, Cauchy-à-la-Tour, France—died July 23, 1951, Île d’Yeu) was a French general who was a national hero for his victory at the Battle of Verdun in World War I but was discredited as chief of state of the French government at Vichy in World War II. He died under sentence in a prison fortress.
- BBC - History - Historic Figures: Philippe Pétain (1856 - 1951)Henri Philippe Pétain was born on 24 April 1856 into a farming family from northern France. He joined the French army in 1876. After a number of World War One commands, in 1916, Pétain was ...
- Vichy France | History, Leaders, & Map | BritannicaVichy France (July 1940–September 1944), France under the regime of Marshal Philippe Petain, from France’s defeat by Nazi Germany to its liberation by the Allies in World War II. France was divided into two zones: one under German military occupation and one left to the French in full sovereignty, at least nominally.
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