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Draft of anti-Jewish measure changing views of Vichy head

Nearly 70 years to the day since the passage of a pivotal anti-Semitic law in Vichy-occupied France, new evidence about who drafted the law is transforming some historians' views of France's wartime head of state, Philippe Petain. Read more »

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FEATURED STORY Draft of anti-Jewish measure changing views of Vichy head Nearly 70 years to the day since the passage of a pivotal anti-Semitic law in Vichy-occupied France, new evidence about who drafted the law is transforming some historians' views of France's wartime head of state, Philippe Petain. Read more »

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