Prof. Greg Jackson
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first heard Feb 2026
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a collaborationist regime that's set up in the spa town of Vichy to administer the south of France and France's global empire.
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Since then, we've seen the Allies wrest French North Africa from Vichy and the Desert Fox, Germany's Erwin Rommel, and FDR and Winston Churchill accept that, though the man can be stubborn and hard to work with,
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General Charles de Gaulle, or Charles de Gaulle to the English ear, is emerging as France's leader in his London-based exile.
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Well, it's him or Henri Giraud, or probably Charles.
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Feeling caught up?
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Excellent.
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Let's get to the trouble now brewing for both the occupying Third Reich and collaborationist Vichy France.
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And it's a brew of the two regimes' own making.
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See, while there was some resistance in France from day one of the occupation, it really was small.
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Mostly graffiti, then newspapers, and a few truly brave souls who risked their lives to help crash-landed Allied airmen back to Britain.
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This was because as long as you didn't fight the occupation or Vichy, and weren't Jewish, life pretty much carried on.
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Jean-Paul Sartre finished writing his existential magnum opus, Being and Nothingness, and French cinema even had a little renaissance.
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But to pick up where we left off with François Dallon in episode 200, when the Vichy Admiral made a deal with the Allies in French North Africa in November 1942, the Nazis responded by occupying Vichy France.
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And that didn't change when a Pied-Noir man killed him.
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All of mainland France...
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is now occupied.
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And life in France grew considerably worse early this year, 1943.
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In January, Vichy created a new paramilitary force, La Milice, which cruelly strives to outdo the Nazis at rounding up French Jews and crushing resistance fighters.
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Only a month later, February 1943, came Le Service du Travail Obligatoire, a law conscripting young men in their early twenties to labor in Germany.
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The goal here was to shore up Germany's growing casualties by forcing 1.5 million Frenchmen to carry the Reich's war economy, thereby freeing up more German men to fight at the front.
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