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Summer blockbuster: Why the French keep coming back to Charles de Gaulle

The release of a two-part summer blockbuster on General Charles de Gaulle’s fight to rally resistance to Nazi occupation is yet another sign that the once-divisive figure continues to fascinate the French public. And while his name risks being turned into an empty signifier of fading French glory on the…

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‘Nobody would forgive me if I told the truth’: new film about pacifist turned Nazi collaborator divides France

In Les Rayons et les Ombres, Jean Dujardin plays a real-life press baron partying during the horrors of the second world war. Director Xavier Giannoli discusses bringing this still sensitive topic to light

The Guardian - UK

Two great war leaders united by American isolationism: Charles de Gaulle and Volodymyr Zelensky

Eighty-five years before Volodymyr Zelensky visited Downing Street in search of support for Ukrainian democracy, a Frenchman arrived in London with a similar request.

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Capitulating to Trump: why people are warning about ‘Vichy’ America

As Trump creates unprecedented chaos, Democrats have offered little more than platitudes – sparking comparisons to France’s collaborationist second world war regime

The Guardian - US

Macron Riles Netanyahu With Jab On Israel's Creation

French President Emmanuel Macron has further strained tense relations with Israel with a comment referring o the creation of the Israeli state, a verbal jab that was rapidly denounced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as distorting history.

International Business Times

Critics blast new French PM Barnier for having twice voted against gay rights

French media and some political opponents of freshly appointed Prime Minister Michel Barnier quickly dug up that, while serving in parliament in 1981, he had been among 155 lawmakers who voted against a law decriminalizing homosexuality.

France 24

On the brink of power: how France’s National Rally reinvented itself

Opponents say party is ‘political heir’ of Vichy regime, which collaborated with Nazis, amid efforts to halt its rise

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France a step closer to compensating victims of past anti-gay laws

France's LGBTQ+ activists have welcomed a decision by the National Assembly to approve a bill compensating people convicted of the "offence of homosexuality" between 1942 and 1982. Up to 400 victims could be eligible for reparations under the draft law, which must now be examined by the Senate.

Radio France Internationale

French Senate debates compensation for gay men jailed under homophobic laws

An estimated 60,000 gay men were convicted by French courts between 1942 and 1982 under homophobic laws that were repealed just four decades ago. On Wednesday, French senators will discuss a bill acknowledging France’s role in the persecution of homosexuals and offering compensation to those still alive, mirroring steps taken…

France 24

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain review – a fallen hero in the dock

Julian Jackson’s meticulous, engaging history of the collaborator general and his downfall is a gripping study of dishonour and denial

The Guardian - UK

Brexiteer compares NI politicians who accept Sunak deal to Nazi collaborators

Returning to Stormont would mean ‘collaboration’ with EU as ‘colonial government’, says Kate Hoey

The Independent UK

DUP move to block plank of NI Brexit deal overwhelmingly rejected by peers

Politicians returning to Stormont under the revamped pact would be like Nazi collaborators in wartime France, Baroness Hoey said.

The Independent UK

MLAs returning to Stormont would be like collaborators says Baroness Kate Hoey

The former Labour MP is a firm supporter of Brexit

Belfast Live

Allies’ successful first invasion but a ‘botched’ job: Operation Torch, 80 years on

On November 8, 1942, the Western Allies launched Operation Torch, landing in Vichy-controlled Morocco and Algeria to open up a second front in World War II. Torch was a paradoxical operation: The Allies won in just over a week, but losses were relatively high as the operation provided harsh lessons…

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Holocaust survivors mark 80 years since mass Paris roundup

France is holding ceremonies Sunday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of a mass roundup of Jews in Paris under the Nazi occupation

France 24

How three-quarters of French Jews survived the Holocaust, despite the Vichy regime

The fate of France’s Jews during World War II has become an unlikely topic of debate in the run-up to the French presidential election, exhumed by a revisionist candidate’s widely debunked claims that the Nazi-allied Vichy regime offered them protection. FRANCE 24 spoke to historian Jacques Sémelin, whose latest book…

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