| Hard as I am sure it was . There is something sinister in the way that a large percentage of Vichy France actively sought a form of partnership with the Germans,with serious resistance springing up, only after the demand for labour to help with the German war effort .
Passive collaboration by an occupied nation is excusable,but the active, sometimes zealous levels of collaboration, even amazed the Germans.
It is also bizarre how members of the two active arms of resistance not only refused to cooperate,but often sabotaged one anothers actions.
DeGaulle in his attempt to create a post war healing amongst French citizens , sealed files for a hundred years.
Will we ever know the true extent of French collaboration in WW11? |