'Vichy' and the Destiny of the West
‘Vichy’ and the Destiny of the West Commentary Winston Churchill once observed that nations which go down fighting have the capacity to be reborn. Those that surrender tamely, he thought, might never rise again to their former glory. Such was the case with the French Third Republic. After the country was invaded by Germany in May of 1940, French forces rapidly lost the will to fight and the French government pursued the course of armistice with National Socialist Germany. Rather than sign the nation away himself, Prime Minister Paul Reynaud resigned. The leadership of France fell to the a...
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