Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1945
Postwar treason trials
Pétain and Laval were prosecuted after liberation for their roles in the Vichy regime and its collaboration with Germany.
1943
Milice repression
The Vichy-supported Milice participated in the persecution of Resistance members, Jews, and political opponents, often alongside German security forces.
1942
Vel' d'Hiv roundup
French police arrested thousands of Jews in Paris in an operation that preceded deportation to concentration and extermination camps.
1940
Vichy antisemitic legislation
The French State independently enacted statutes excluding Jews from public life and later expanded the system of registration, internment, dispossession, and deportation.