Petain meeting Hitler, a picture to illustrate Nazi collaboration

France will throw open access to police and legal archives drawn from one of the country's darkest hours, when the Vichy regime collaborated with the Nazis, authorities said Sunday

Starting on Monday,  the archives can be "freely consulted" by the civil service, citizens and researchers "subject to the declassification of documents covered by national defence secrecy rules," according to a decree.

The Vichy regime, led by World War I hero Philippe Petain, collaborated with the invading German army from 1940-1944.

   France has a painful relationship with this portion of its past, when the government helped the Nazis deport 76,000 Jews from its territory during the war.

http://www.thelocal.fr/20151227/france-opens-access-to-nazi-collaboration-era-archives

Val says   if you have ever read about Petain you will know that he was a Fascist hater of Jews and it was a period in France that you dread ever arriving again. Which is why we must speak out before people like this gain footholds again. I imagine the documents will throw even more light on this terrible period.

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