Many Frenchmen, who had stomached the idea of Marshal Pétain as a possible savior of France, vomited all hope for Vichy when Pierre Laval took over.
Last week, while Laval was singing the praises of Hitler's New Order to the staccato tune of German firing squads executing more than 65 French hostages in Rouen, St. Nazaire and Paris, five top members of Vichy's Embassy in Washington headed by Counselor Léon Marchal, saw fit to resign their posts and join the De Gaullist Free French movement.
In Occupied France, the Germans had a dapper new...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
