True. Vichy was never pressured or threatened. Anti-catholic maurassiens were
another kettle of fish. Bottom line: ideology kills, never let the crazies
anywhere near power. - Phil
On 00:28, stephan Van den Zegel wrote:
>Of course vichy was antisemite... as the right wing (mainly
>catholics) wasbefore the war... but they surely would prefer
>Mussolini to Hitler because of the concordat. At the beginning,
>situation for the jews was different in the occupied zone and in the
>"free" zone... but in both situation Vichy took the initiative,
>preceding the german requirements. Chronologically, the first
>victims of the collaboration were the European antifascist
>(Italians, Spaniards, germans, ...even Belgians) that the French
>government had put in camps (like Le Vernet d'Ariège) at the
>beginning of the war and that Vichy gave away to the Germans
>(richtung Dachau, no stop, and very few came back)...or the Italians
>(direzzione La Spezia or the confin system, most of them
>survived)...
>
>Stephan
==
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