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	state of France
		From the outset, the government of Marshal Pétain undertakes a programme of reform under the name of National Revolution, of which the goal is to restructure French society and provide the foundations of the French State which reflects national and social characteristics.
		Confronted with German demands, Marshal Pétain’s action tends firstly to preserve the essential : the independence of the French State, the defence of the empire, the protection of the fleet, the return of the prisoners and the reduction of the crushing occupation cost.
		Marshal Pétain and the Government are obliged to submit to this flmail so as to protect, as a matter of priority, the Jews of French nationality.
	www.marechal-petain.com /versionanglaise/etatfrancais.htm (2244 words)

	Petain, Henri Philippe. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1917 he was appointed French commander in chief and in 1918 was made a marshal.
		In Apr., 1942, Pierre Laval took power, and thereafter the marshal was chiefly a figurehead.
		General de Gaulle, then provisional head of the French government, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment in a military fortress; detained at first in the Pyrenees, Pétain was later transferred to the island of Yeu, where he died.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pe/Petain-H.html (418 words)

	Henri-Philippe Petain
		Petain became convinced that the increased fire-power of modern weapons strongly favoured the defensive.
		Petain fed to Switzerland after the Normandy landings but when he returned in April, 1945, he was arrested and charged with treason.
		Petain was found guilty of and sentenced to death for aiding the German enemy.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWpetain.htm (1250 words)

	Philippe Pétain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marshal Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain, was a French soldier and Head of State of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944.
		Marshall Pétain was then appointed as Prime Minister of France and granted extraordinary powers.
		Petain himself is generally regarded in the same manner as Vidkun Quisling is in Norway, or Benedict Arnold is in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Petain (1420 words)

	Philippe Petain
		French general and politician Henri Philippe Omer Petain graduated from the French Military Academy at St. Cyr in 1878.
		In 1917 he was appointed commander of all French forces, and a year later was promoted to the position of Marshal.
		Following the defeat of Germany, Petain was tried for treason and sentenced to death in 1945.
	www.multied.com /Bio/people/Petain.html (154 words)

	Leaders, Operation Torch
		Marshall enjoys the deep respect of Roosevelt, the British, and most of the senior officers in the Army and Navy.
		Marshall and his senior staff are convinced that the invasion plans are driven by political concerns.
		General Marshall was impressed by Eisenhower’s ability to make independent decisions and to understand complex situations, but many (including General MacArthur) blame Eisenhower for the loss of the Philippines.
	mason.gmu.edu /~ssledge/situation5.htm (3830 words)

	AllRefer.com - Henri Philippe PEtain (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In World War II, when France was on the brink of collapse, Premier Paul Reynaud recalled (May, 1940) PEtain from Spain and made him vice premier in an effort to bolster French morale with the name of the hero of Verdun.
		PEtain urged that France sue for an armistice, and on June 16 he succeeded Reynaud as premier.
		PEtain sought to improve the lot of France and of French prisoners of war by collaborating "honorably" with Germany, but his popularity decreased as he yielded to harsh German demands and obtained little in return.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Petain-H.html (485 words)

	Marshal biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Marshal (more seldom spelled Marshall) is a word used in several official titles of various branches of society.
		As marshals became betrusted members of the courts of mediaeval Europe, the title grew in reputation.
		In the case of local or municipal courts, Marshals are petty court officers similar to Constables.
	marshal.biography.ms (440 words)

	Arianna Online Forums - Compiegne: Ariel Sharon - Modern Marshal Petain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Marshal Philippe Petain, French hero of Verdun in 1916, failed his people at Compiegne in the summer of 1940, when France surrendered to Nazi Germany.
		Petain's fascistic government collaborated with Nazi Germany and grew unpopular as it yielded to harsh German demands.
		After the Allied victory, he [Petain] was convicted of treason (1945) and was sentenced to death; the sentence was commuted by Charles De Gaulle to life imprisonment".
	www.ariannaonline.com /forums/printthread.php?t=11348 (788 words)

	President Roosevelt to the Appointed Ambassador to France (Leahy), 20 December 1940
		I had reason to believe that Marshal Pétain was not cognizant of all of the acts of his Vice Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Monsieur Laval, in his relations with the Germans.
		Accordingly, you should endeavor to bring to Marshal Pétain's attention such acts done or contemplated in the name of France which you deem to be inimical to the interests of the United States.
		When Marshal Pétain came into power as Chief of the French State I received renewed and most solemn assurances that the French fleet would not be surrendered to Germany.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/WorldWar2/leahy.htm (1327 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Marr-Matg) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was made vice-admiral and commander-in-chief on the American station in 1779 and co-operated with Sir Henry Clinton in the capture of Charleston in 1780.
		Marshal Henri Philippe Petain was a French soldier.
		He was born in 1856 at Normandy and died in 1951.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /CAB.HTM (1959 words)

	Vichy France
		This means that the Marshal does not wish decisions that the French Government may be impelled to make in the sole interest of Germany to bear his signature.
		Ever since June 16, 1940, I have been a loyal collaborator of the Marshal who often confided his feelings to me. I know his feelings of affection for the great nation of the U.S. I know that, at the bottom of his heart, what matters most to him is the friendship of the American people.
		When he was free to act the Marshal always expressed his confidence to me. He did it again on November 9 before the invasion of the free zone.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWvichy.htm (1840 words)

	Infantry Magazine: Marshal Petain Understood It All: Firepower Kills - French military officer Philippe Petain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Petain saw the fatal flaw in Grandmaison's theories of offense.
		The ability of the infantry-both individually and in small units-to marshal its own firepower and meld it with artillery and air support has proved the validity of Petain's views-except that today it will not be only artillery but a combined arms team that is decisive.
		Petain did not intend to imply rigidity or inflexibility in the employment of firepower.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IAV/is_2_90/ai_76736954 (1338 words)

	The Eye of Vichy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In several scenes, Petain also promotes the shipping of volunteer skilled workers to German factories--the deal was for every 3 skilled workers that were sent to Germany, one POW would be returned to France.
		In some of the newsreel for example, Petain speaks out against the French resistance, and the execution of 50 French citizens is organised to pressure people to become whistleblowers against the resistance.
		For it is in these actions that Petain is shown as being a fawning German puppet rather than simply being misguided and negotiating the "best deal" that he can for a defeated people.
	www.camping-first-aid-kit.com /prod/B00007AJEI/The_Eye_of_Vichy.html (1000 words)

	The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk \| Introduction
		Leader of the collaborationist Vichy regime in France; the aged Petain, a former World War I hero here reduced to a lackey of the Nazis, holds a ledger book representing the French steel industry, a large part of which was confiscated by Nazi Germany when it incorporated parts of France into the Reich.
		Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, future head of the Vichy government.
		Marshal Henri Philippe Petain (second from left), head of the Vichy government, with Nazi leader Hermann Goering (fourth from left) and his entourage.
	www.ushmm.org /museum/exhibit/online/szyk/intro/petain.htm (170 words)

	New Statesman - A poor defence
		A mediocre officer who found himself on top of the heap at the end of the First World War, largely as the result of Buggins's turn, he shared all the postwar prejudices of that large section of the French middle class that was anti-Semitic, anti-communist and sympathetic to fascism.
		Petain lived for a very long time, and he comes across as a man who was always old.
		Entirely lacking is any sense of the French social and political context that Petain personified, and there is no reference to the extraordinary life beyond the grave of the man who surrendered his country to Hitler.
	www.newstatesman.com /200505230043.htm (997 words)

	Vichy France, Free French, Operation Torch
		Marshal Pétain’s Vichy France attempts to preserve its autonomy following its defeat in 1940.
		Vichy France maintains a stated policy of armed neutrality, but it appears to be accomodating German demands in all areas with the exception that it does not allow the Axis to use French military forces actively against the Allies.
		The two primary American strategic objectives are to dissuade the Petain government from allowing Axis forces to use French colonial bases and to prevent the Axis from controlling the French Fleet.
	mason.gmu.edu /~ssledge/situation1.htm (1095 words)

	HyperWar: Peace and War: United States Foreign Policy, 1931-1941 (Document 192]
		I had reason to believe that Marshal Petain was not cognizant of all of the acts of his Vice Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Monsieur Laval, in his relations with the Germans.
		Accordingly, you should endeavor to bring to Marshal Petain's attention such acts done or contemplated in the name of France which you deem to be inimical to the interests of the United States.
		When Marshal Petain came into power as Chief of the French State I received renewed and most solemn assurances that the French fleet would not be surrendered to Germany.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/Dip/PaW/192.html (1307 words)

	Charles de Gaulle, president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was mentioned as "an admirable, energetic, and courageous leader." On June 6 he entered the government of Paul Reynaud as undersecretary of state for defense and war, and he undertook several missions to England to explore the possibilities of continuing the war.
		When the Reynaud government was replaced by that of Marshal Pétain, who intended to seek an armistice with the Germans, de Gaulle left for England.
		He was totally devoted to France and had the strength of character (or obstinacy, as it often appeared to the British) to fight for French interests as he saw them with all the resources at his disposal.
	mujweb.cz /www/mnichov/gaulle.htm (2554 words)

	FDR-->Secretary of State-5/14/41 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"The President has, as the Marshal well knows, an old and deep affection for his and understands the extreme pressure which is being exercised on the Marshal and his Government by the Germans.
		The President feels, however, that insofar as the future of the world and the writing of history is concerned, the time is now at hand for decisions which should not be open to future misconstruction.
		It is, in the judgment of the President, equally anmatter [sic] of honor for Frenchmen to defend that Colonial Empire against any other form of attempted use or occupation by any other nation, including the German.
	www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu /psf/box2/t23q01.html (234 words)

	Reader's Companion to Military History - - Pétain, Henri-Philippe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain endeared himself to the French nation during World War I.
		Beginning the war as an obscure fifty-eight-year-old colonel in command of an infantry brigade, he rose quickly in rank, assuming command of the Sixth Division in September 1914, the Thirty-third Corps in October, and the Second Army in June 1915.
		Richard Griffiths, Pétain: A Biography of Marshal Philippe Pétain of Vichy (1972); Stephen Ryan, Pétain the Soldier (1969).
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/mil/html/ml_040500_petainhenrip.htm (762 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: What was the Maginot Line?
		If you're Marshal Pétain, you decide that setting up massive fortifications along your border with Germany would be a smart thing to do.
		When Marshal Pétain broached the subject of France's defenses to Maginot in the early '20's, he found a receptive audience.
		Maginot was convinced that the Treaty of Versailles would not guarantee a peace, and that some system of defense was needed--an argument that most of the government, horrified by the carnage of the World War, was not willing to listen to.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mmaginot.html (1005 words)

	WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: July
		Marshal Balbo is replaced by Marshal Graziani as C-in-C of Italian forces in Libya.
		Field Marshal von Rundstedt resigns as C-in-C of German forces in the West and is replaced by FM von Kluge.
		At Krasnograd near Moscow, a group of captured German officers, including Field Marshal Paulus and General von Seydlitz, and exiled German communists form the 'National Committee for a Free Germany' that calls for the overthrow of Hitler and the cessation of hostilities against the Soviet Union.
	www.feldgrau.com /july.html (5456 words)

	1925-1940 : an anti-conformist officer - © www.charles-de-gaulle.org
		In 1925, he was posted to the staff of Marshal Pétain, vice-president of the Higher War Council, the Conseil Supérieur de la Guerre.
		In 1931, he was posted to the general secretariat for national defence in Paris, an important posting that gave him his first experience in the affairs of state.
		He gave several lectures at the École Supérieure de Guerre under the auspices of Marshal Pétain : he showed himself to be an independent thinker and evolved his own idea of military leadership : "L'Action du chef de guerre" ("The Action of the War Leader") and "Du caractère" ("On character").
	www.charles-de-gaulle.org /article_print.php?id_article=367 (628 words)

	"Loose" quotations #3;
		The Marshal stated that his country was defeated because of sensual pleasure.
		Marshal Pétain, who was at the Government of France at the time of its defeat, has never stated what SB has said...
		Marshal Pétain refused to transfer in exhile his government, and preferred to sign an armistice with Germany (22 June) and Mussolini's fascist Italy (24 June), which on 10 June came into war by Hitler's side.
	home.hetnet.nl /~ex_baba/engels/articles/p_holbach/eng/quot3_e.htm?FACTNet (3463 words)

	Anti-Semitism Worldwide 1999/2000 - Freedom of Expression: Three Cases of Racism and Toleration
		On the initiative of the National Association of Former Members of the Resistance, a complaint was filed against the leadership of the association.
		The association was charged with having violated a French law which criminalized the public defense of persons convicted of collaboration with the enemy.
		The majority underlined the lack of proportionality between the conviction of the two men on the one hand and, on the other, a paid advertisement to promote the rehabilitation of Marshal Pétain, which was the declared purpose of a legally constituted association.
	www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw99-2000/foighel.htm (2884 words)

	Marshal Ferdinand Foch
		After this battle, he served in Flanders and became commandant of the French Army Group that fought at the Battle of the Somme.
		In 1916, he retired but returned to duty in May 1917, when he was appointed chief-of-staff to Marshal Pétain.
		To some extent Pétain carried a degree of baggage as he had been replaced by Joffre at Verdun and replaced by Nivelle.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /marshal__ferdinand_foch.htm (397 words)

	This Day in History
		His vice premier, Henri Petain, formed a new government and asked the Germans for an armistice, in effect, surrendering.
		Petain believed that he could negotiate a better deal for his country--for example, obtaining the release of prisoners of war--by cooperating with, or as some would say, appeasing, the Germans.
		Petain acquiesced, but refused to resign in protest because of fear that France would come under direct German rule if he were not there to act as a buffer.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=worldwarii&month=10272958&day=10272981 (422 words)

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