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To: kech who wrote (116670)	5/27/2005 3:39:03 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 793917

Theoretically the nazis were socialist too, being the national socialist party. But i suspect pacifism was the french face given their predicament.

To: kech who wrote (116670)	5/27/2005 5:29:36 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

I'm not sure I would call Vichy pacifist. I would call them collaberators with their conquerors- that is a rather different thing (imo): "The important thing, though, is that the regime was not so much right or left as it was the expression of all the accumulated fears and resentments and prejudices that the French had accumulated in the previous decades. Vichy was French pettiness and French meanness at its worst. And these qualities came out, more than anywhere else, in its persecution of Jews." Petain, after all, was a soldier. He thought France's ability to fight was gone, and he wanted an armistice, to save France. I believe his government incorporated elements of left and right, and the French who fled to the UK were also of the left and right. I do not think the phenomenon of the Vichy government lends itself to easy generalizations.