LEADER 03292nim 2200421Ka 450 001 9910155584803321 005 20250814103520.9 010 $a1-5094-2224-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000975750 035 $a(ODN)ODN0003210949 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000975750 100 $a20191027d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auruna---||||| 181 $cspw$2rdacontent 182 $cs$2rdamedia 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVichy france $eThe history of nazi germany's occupation of france during world war ii. /$fCharles River Editors 205 $aUnabridged. 210 $aSolon $cCharles River Editors$d2016 215 $a1 online resource (2 audio files) $cdigital 300 $aUnabridged. 330 $aEmerging from France's catastrophic 1940 defeat like a bedraggled and rather sinister phoenix, the French State ? better known to history as "Vichy France" or the "Vichy Regime" after its spa-town capital ? stands in history as a unique and bizarre creation of German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler's European conquests. A patchwork of paradoxes and contradictions, the Vichy Regime maintained a quasi-independent French nation for some time after the Third Reich invasion until the Germans decided to include it in their occupation zone. Headed by a French war hero of World War I, Marshal Philippe Petain, and his later Prime Minister Pierre Laval, Vichy France displayed strong right-wing, conservative, and authoritarian tendencies. Nevertheless, it never lapsed fully into fascism until the Germans arrived to reduce its role to little more than a mask over their own dominion. Petain carried out several major initiatives in an effort to counteract the alleged "decadence" of modern life and to restore the strength and "virtues" of the French "race." Accordingly, he received willing support from more conservative elements of society, even some factions within the Catholic Church. Following Case Anton ? the takeover of the unoccupied area by the Germans ? native French fascist elements also emerged. While the French later disowned the Vichy government with considerable vehemence, evidence such as fairly broad-based popular support prior to Case Anton suggests a somewhat different story. The Petain government expressed one facet of French culture and thought. Its conservative, imperialistic nature did not represent the widespread love of "liberty, fraternity, and equality" also deeply ingrained in French thinking, but neither did it constitute a complete divergence from a national history that produced such famous authoritarians as Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte. Vichy France: The History of Nazi Germany's Occupation of France during World War II looks at France after its downfall and the occupation that lasted until late 1944. 517 $aVichy France 606 $aNonfiction$2OverDrive 606 $aHistory$2OverDrive 606 $aMilitary$2OverDrive 615 17$aNonfiction. 615 7$aHistory. 615 7$aMilitary. 686 $aHIS014000$aHIS027100$aHIS037070$2bisacsh 700 $aEditors$b Charles River$01843297 701 $aCrockett$b William$01843380 906 $aAUDIO 912 $a9910155584803321 996 $aVichy france$94427856 997 $aUNINA