Vichy Regime
Verdun's mayor, Samuel Hazard, issued a decree to ban a mass honoring Marshal Pétain, head of the Vichy regime, on November 15. The Nancy administrative court authorized the event despite protests. An investigation for denying crimes against humanity was opened against the organizing association's president.
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Historian Laurent Joly, in an interview with Le Monde, states that the shameful weight of Vichy's past has not vanished in contemporary France. In his new book, he examines the Vichy regime's active role in the Holocaust. This analysis highlights current echoes of that dark period.