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    What happened to Vichey - the head of the German occupation in France during WWII?

    Question #22983. Asked by DeGaul. (Oct 03 02 6:13 AM)


    Gnomon

    		Vichy is not a person, it is a town in the Auvergne Region of France. It was the site of the governement during the German Occupation. The leader of the Vichy government was Philippe Petain.

    Oct 03 02, 7:01 AM
    DeGaul

    		What happened to Petain?

    Oct 03 02, 1:26 PM
    Barrow boy

    		As the German army swept across France, DeGaulle and other Free French retreated to Britain in the evacuation of Dunkirk, which left Petain to surrender the country to the Germans. He would be given the job as a Nazi puppet-leader of the new Vichy France from 1940 to France's liberation in 1944. Consequently, the new French government put Petain on trial as a Nazi collaborator. He was sentanced to life imprisonment, and died in 1951 at the age of 95.

    http://www.dingwall.bc.ca/history/main.php3?cat=personalities and listing=Marshal_Petain

    Oct 03 02, 1:36 PM

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