Timeline of collaboration between Nazi Germany and Vichy France
After France surrendered in 1940, Marshal Philippe Pétain led a southern government known as Vichy France. This regime chose to collaborate with Nazi Germany. In July 1942, the Bousquet-Oberg agreements formalized cooperation between the French police and the German police. Under Vichy, anti-Semitic laws were enacted and the regime helped carry out Nazi genocide.
France was divided into two zones. The Zone libre (Free Zone) in the south was governed from Vichy and is also called the Vichy regime or the French State. The Zone occupée (Occupied Zone) in the north was controlled by a German military administration from Paris and followed Berlin's orders.
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