When Marshal Philippe Petain was declared the Chief of the State of France, a German puppet regime with its capital in Vichy, the Free French forces under Generals Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle were recognized as the true representatives of the French people. After the collapse of the Third Republic with France's surrender to the Nazis in 1940 and the establishment of the Vichy regime, Free French forces abroadalong with loyal French ambassadors and colonial administrators, as well as senators and deputies who fled from Bordeaux for Algiersbegan forming the foundations of the post-war Fourth Republic. President Franklin Roosevelt deemed Vichy to be Nazi collaborators and ordered Vichy assets in the United States, including the passenger liner Normandie, seized by the Treasury Department. For the Free French, the Vichy government was a collaborationist regime. It is treated by modern historians as an aberration and a totalitarian regime, much as future historians will undoubtedly acknowledge the Trump regime.
Down with the regime and up with the republic!
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