Moral lessons from Vichy France.

Almost 50 years ago, Robert Paxton published his influential “Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944.” The book awakened readers to the shock of how close France came to becoming an ...

Unless the whole world was deceived, the Vichy Government last week squarely and publicly placed its bet on Germany to win World War II. Not only did it yield to Germany, which men in France today ...

It was Riom reversed. In 1942 Vichy-france had brought the fallen Third Republic to trial. Now, in Paris, a representative of fallen Vichy stood before the High Court of the “Fourth Republic.” The ...

Netflix’s Transatlantic explores the story of how Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) evacuated thousands of refugees from Vichy France during World War II. This story is also a ...

World War II history buffs can learn new details at a talk called "The War Within a War," about the intense rivalries between the British Empire and the government of Vichy France, on Jan. 8 at the ...

Last Friday, I received a message from Jim Ryan, the president of the University of Virginia. At first, I thought it was like countless others I have received over the years, since I defended my PhD ...