Hi Harry
interesting post!
my point about De Gaulle 'brushing Vichy under the table' refered to a speech of De Gaulle's where he declared that 'everyone was part of the resistance' (paraphrased I know, i am looking for the original) perhaps an indication of that sentiment was that in the post war trials around 7,000 were sentenced to death but only 767 were eventually executed.
When you say he purged the collaborators, what do you mean? my understanding was that most went free, indeed if the above statistic is anything to go on..they did
Quote:
| The deportation of Jews from France was carried out by the Vichy Government |
well, i know i'm playing with semantics but they ordered it, it was the police and/or the milice who actually did it surely? and if some french police aided the resistance, what percentage would that be ? the majority must have been anti-resistance (?)
I am playing devils advocate here
I am not, by an stretch of the imagination, an authority on post war france, but I am interested
chris