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The difference is that the Allies helped France rebuild instead of making it pay indemnity [1] for the actions of the Vichy regime. [1] https://en.wikipedia.or
by akiselev 3y ago
The difference is that the Allies helped France rebuild instead of making it pay indemnity [1] for the actions of the Vichy regime.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy
- dudul 3y agoThe Vichy regime wasn't the French government, it was the puppet for an occupying country. Allies helped everybody rebuild, including Germany.
- akiselev 3y agoRight, that's the point. The Allies helped France rebuild after their occupier - Germany - was defeated _by the Allies_. France's colonies, however, did not receive the same courtesy when their occupier - France - had to be violently forced from the colonies. The independent nations were, more often than not, left ruling over ashes.
- sofixa 3y ago> The Vichy regime wasn't the French government, it was the puppet for an occupying country That's just wishful hand waving away a problematic period of French history. The Vichy government is a direct successor to the previous government, with Pétain replacing Reynaud as Prime Minister following all procedures, and was elected specifically to sign an armistice with Germany. From there they went on suspending thr constitution and civil liberties, and being in most, but not all (most notably military, the French navy, air force and army didn't help the Germans in any way and ended up being sabotaged before falling in German hands) respects a puppet of Germany. But they got to that position as a direct continuation of the previous Third Republic governments.
- dudul 3y agoBy this logic Hitler was also elected. Elections held in an occupied country don't put in place a legitimate government.