Harry's post about Vichy and its noxious behavior is very true and his point is well-taken. Laval, Petain, and the rest of the Vichy leadership were bitterly opposed to the Third Republic and democracy in general, and admired Fascism. The Hoare-Laval Pact of 1936 gave approval to Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia. They were jackals of the Reich in a lot of ways. De Gaulle had to be rid of them in 1944, and dealt with them -- and his Communist rivals -- pretty neatly. Laval got the rope.
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