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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Philippe Petain

Philippe Pétain sits at his trial in July 1945 in Paris. (Photo by PIGISTE / AFP)
January 1, 2024, 8:04 am
History has confirmed guilt of Vichy leader Petain – so why do some question it?
Regime helped deport 75,000 Jews to Nazi death camps, but as ‘France on Trial’ – a best book of the year by UK media – details, this got barely a mention when its leader went on trial
By Robert Philpot
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, right, shakes hands with head of Vichy France Philippe Petain, in occupied France, October 24, 1940. (AP)
February 1, 2023, 2:47 am
New York community leaders call to remove Nazi collaborators from ‘Canyon of heroes’
Manhattan borough president says leaders of French Vichy regime, which helped deport tens of thousands of Jews to concentration camps, ’embody the worst of humanity’
By Luke Tress
This file photo taken in May 1941 shows Jews getting off the train in Pithiviers (AFP)
July 17, 2022, 7:57 am
Macron to speak at ceremony marking 80th anniversary of WWII round-up of Jews
At former railway station used to deport Jews to Auschwitz, France’s president will acknowledge that ‘French society is not finished with antisemitism’
By AFP
Eric Zemmour gestures as he takes part in the political show 'Elysee 2022' on French TV channel France 2, in Saint-Denis, near Paris, on March 17, 2022. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
May 17, 2022, 10:13 am
Zemmour acquitted of Holocaust denial for saying French Nazi collaborator saved Jews
Appeals court confirms earlier ruling that ex-presidential candidate didn’t deny crimes against humanity by saying Philippe Pétain sacrificed foreign Jews to save Jewish citizens
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this photo dated May 8, 2014, Bernard Dargols poses during an interview with the Associated Press at his home in La Garenne-Colombes, outside Paris, France (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
April 30, 2019, 3:47 pm
Bernard Dargols, only French GI to fight at Omaha Beach in WWII, dies at 98
Former soldier, whose family has Jewish origins, left France in 1938 for an internship in the US and enlisted after seeing France’s Vichy leader shake hands with Adolf Hitler
By AFP
A swastika and the words 'Shoa blabla' on the stele of the Jardin du Souvenir (Garden of Memories) after anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered in the Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or cemetery in France, on February 20, 2019. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP)
February 28, 2019, 7:39 am
Outbreak of anti-Semitism forces France to confront painful past
For hundreds of years Jews faced discrimination from authorities that even the emancipation of the French Revolution didn’t dispel
By Camille Bouissou
This photo from June 9, 1941, shows France's Marshal Philippe Petain pointing as he ordered our photographer from the room during the sell-out meeting of the Council of Ministers in Vichy, central France. (AP Photo, File)
November 8, 2018, 8:39 pm
After outcry, Macron says France won’t honor Nazi collaborator general
‘It was never a question of celebrating him individually,’ French president says of Petain, who he praised as a ‘great soldier’ during WWI
By AFP and ToI Staff
French President Emmanuel Macron greets French veterans during ceremonies marking the centenary of World War I at the cemetery by the Ossuary of Douaumont near Verdun, northeastern France, November 6, 2018. (Francois Mori/AP)
November 7, 2018, 5:04 pm
Macron praises WWI general who later collaborated with Nazis
French umbrella group calls president’s comments ‘shocking’ and an ‘insult’ after he lauds war record of Marshal Philippe Petain, who went on to lead Vichy France
By Agencies
This file photo taken on May 31, 2017, shows the co-founder of France's far-right National Front party Jean-Marie Le Pen at a press conference in Marignane, France. (AFP Photo/Franck Pennant)
February 21, 2018, 7:56 am
France’s Jean-Marie Le Pen defends Vichy leader’s deal with Nazis in memoirs
Far-right leader says Philippe Petain, who persecuted Jews during World War II, didn’t dishonor himself by allowing Germany to occupy part of France
By Lucie PEYTERMANN
New York City's historical Canyon of Heroes will keep the plaque honoring Vichy chief of state Henri Philippe Petain, who rounded up 10,000 Jews and turned them over to Hitler. (Danielle Ziri/Times of Israel)
January 15, 2018, 3:52 pm
NYC monument honoring Nazi collaborator to remain in place
Plaque dedicated to Henri Philippe Petain, who handed 10,000 Jews over to Hitler, will continue to be a part of lower Broadway’s ‘Canyon of Heroes’
By Danielle Ziri
Philippe Pétain (photo credit: Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons)
July 23, 2017, 4:23 am
French Nazi collaborator Petain’s tomb vandalized
French military leader headed the government that allowed the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews to death camps
By AFP
This Monday Aug. 20, 2001, file photo shows French Holocaust survivors gathering at the site of the former Drancy detention camp, north of Paris, France. From Aug. 20, 1941 until the end of World War II, more than 70,000 Jewish men, women and children passed through Drancy on their way to Nazi extermination camps, particularly Auschwitz. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
July 23, 2016, 7:27 am
Paris Grand Synagogue under fire for hosting Vichy apologist
CRIF chief slams invitation to Jewish historian who claims pro-Nazi puppet regime tried to save French Jews in Holocaust
By JTA
Files of the 1941 Rosenthal case are displayed by French historian Francois Le Goarant de Tromelin in the 'reading room' of the Paris Police Prefecture Archives department in Paris, France, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. Adolphe Rosenthal, jeweller and diamond dealer born in Russia in 1877 and shot to death in Paris in September 1941 in unclear circumstances. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
December 30, 2015, 7:24 pm
France opens archives of WWII Vichy regime to the public
Hundreds of thousands of files on resistance, communists and Jews hunted by collaborationist government made accessible
By Sylvie Corbet
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