Quote: Originally posted by harribobs@Feb 9 2005, 10:59 AM
I found it quite disturbing to read that the french actually deported their own (Jewish) people without the assistance of any germans from Vichy to the camps, I understand they were given a quota and told to get on with it, which they did with vigour
I know degaulle's solution was to brush it all under the table, he created a myth of a resistant France united against a common, foreign enemy, 'we were all part of the resistance' (paraphrased, i can't find the quote)
| De Gaulle wasn't the only one to brush the Vichy regime under the table. Remember that at the time of Operation Torch, the US did not want to have anything to do with the imperious De Gaulle, so they negotiated with Vichy leaders like Admiral Darlan to bring the French North African forces over to the Allied side. A lot of the French forces that fought in the war after that were former Vichy troops and assets, including the battleship Richelieu and Marshal Juin and his French Expeditionary Corps in Italy. Ironically, that was one of the best Allied forces in Italy.
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