Collaboration

Question 1

How did Petain first come to power

Answer 1

Appointed VP of Conseil May 1940

Question 2

Who appointed him Chef d’etat?

Answer 2

PM

Question 3

Who was Brasillach?

Answer 3

editor of ‘Je suis partout’ which was a French, facist newspaper

Question 4

How was Brasillach killed?

Answer 4

Executed for ‘promoting’ Nazi regime

Question 5

How did Petain ‘sell’ collaboration?

Answer 5

Said it would be the best way to soften the blow for France, wanted the country to have a place in Germany’s new Europe

Question 6

Why did most people like Petain?

Answer 6

His style of ruling rather than them being facist

Question 7

What were Brasillach’s political beliefs?

Answer 7

Facist, genuinely believed in Hitler’s policies, his collaboration was ideological

Question 8

What values did Petain replace?

Answer 8

‘liberte, egalite, fraternite’ with ‘travail, famille, patrie’

Question 9

What steps were there to Petain’s ‘Revolution Nationale’?

Answer 9

1. Replaced values
2. Rejection of egalitarianism
3. Anti-intellectualism
4. Distrust of industrialism
5. Repression (incarcerated key figures)
6. Xenophobia and propaganda

Question 10

What were the two phases of Vichy France?

Answer 10

1. 1940-42 conservative

2. 1942-44 repressive