FRANCE WAS THE ONLY STATE TO LEGALLY ELECT A PUPPET REGIME, WHICH MANY CONSERVATIVES BACKED EVEN AS GERMAN DEFEAT LOOMED
Context:
- Fury at the victory of the Popular Front, which brought the 40-hour week, collective bargaining, two-weeks paid vacation... (in 1936-38)
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- ...led to the slogan,"Better Hitler than Blum,"* and to the collaborationist regime. It protected France from Hitler's most extreme demands, which freed the Nazis to dominate most of Europe.
*Léon Blum, the Socialist Prime Minister
As well, local police were far more effective in deporting Jews and in suppressing the Resistance than outsiders would have been.
- Anti-left posters
"The Soviets pull the strings of the POPULAR FRONT"
Newspaper excerpts from the Pas-de-Calais region in Normandy
For an enlarged picture and 10 other posters of the time, please click
"The Popular Front, Bolshevism's henchman? Beware of Communist hypocrisy, Vote France;The real peril; How Communists are preparing the revolution in France; For or against the Popular Front"
Vichy's "National Revolution" compares a corrupt, internationalist Left with an upstanding, family-oriented, nationalist Right.
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So the Resistance came mainly from the left and after Germany invaded the USSR (in June 1941), particularly from Communists.
Publication unknown (photo from loose magazine pages found at a flea market)
Communists leave prison to be shot (in 1943).
"The party of the 75,000 shot," they called themselves.
An exaggeration, said de Gaulle,
but true enough to make Communists'
coming to power in Western Europe likely:
That is the rarely stated reason
for the Marshall Plan.
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