What was the French Vichy government?
The government of Vichy did not cooperate with Germany “in every way possible” but was forced to cooperate due to 1 million of POW and occupation of half of the country. For example till november 1942 Vichy’s police tracked down many German spies and shooted them for treason. Vichy’s policy was a very ambivalent attitude in many ways, Marechal Ptain the chief of State waiting for the US entry in the WWII. But the attaks of the British navy at Mers El Kebir an Dakar against the French Navy during 1940’s summer, the seizure of French ships in Alexandria and other British harbours during the same summer, and next the war against French legalist troops in Syria in 1941 did not help matters . Later in november 1942 when German troops occupied the whole territory the chief of government Pierre Laval was set by German and the policy was most firmly slanted to a pro German attitude with many facist aspects. French goverment never handed its navy to German and ordered to scupper its own ships w
