DAILY MAIL
France’s darkest secrets will be revealed today: Archive naming collaborators who helped Nazis round up Jews are finally opened 70 years on
by Peter Allen
December 29, 2015

Hidden details of France’s collaboration in the wartime Holocaust when tens of thousands of Jews were deported to their deaths are today publicly available for the first time. Archives kept under lock and key for up to three quarters of a century have been opened for the first time, as the country faces up to its Nazi past. All of the documents relate to the Vichy Regime, which was led by Marshal Philippe Petain between 1940 and 1944. This was a time of often enthusiastic collaboration with the Third Reich, as French police and paramilitary organisations were among the many who rounded up ‘enemies of the state’ and sent them to Germany for extermination. Many of the 76,000 Jews killed came from major cities including Paris, where an occupying German garrison worked closely with their French allies. READ MORE