Vichy France: Timeline

1940   World War II World War II

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: Vichy France begins with a constitutional law where only 80 members of the parliament voted against.

1942   Holocaust: On order from the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval Pierre Laval

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, French police Police

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 officers round-up 13,000-20,000 Jew Jew

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s and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.

1942   World War II World War II

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: In violation of a 1940 armistice, Germany Germany

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 invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies Allies

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 in North Africa North Africa

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1942   French Admiral Darlan, the former Vichy Vichy France

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 leader who had switched over to the Allies following the Torch landings, assassinated in Algiers Algiers

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1945   World War II: Pierre Laval Pierre Laval

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, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied Allies

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 soldiers in Austria.

1945   World War II World War II

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: Former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval Pierre Laval

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, is executed by firing squad for treason Treason

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1993   In Paris Paris

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, Christian Didier breaks into the home of Rene Bousquet, banker and former Vichy France administrator, and shoots him dead.

1994   Paul Touvier is found guilty of ordering the execution of 7 Jews when he was serving in the Vichy France Milice.