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Photos

A Nazi flag flying over Paris in 1940.

On July 10, 1940, in Vichy, the National Assembly (after the Communist deputies had been expelled) granted full powers to Marshal Pétain.

The first government of the Vichy regime in July 1940: Laval and Pétain in the center.

The Beginnings of the Collaboration: The Meeting Between Pétain and Hitler in Montoire-sur-le-Loir on October 24, 1940.

A restaurant closed to Jews under the German ordinance of September 27, 1940.

An underground printing press used by members of the Resistance in the hamlet of Malbouyssou in the Lot department.

A Torpedo-brand machine used to produce the printing plates for Yiddish leaflets and newspapers published by the Jewish section of the M.O.I.

French prisoners of war in northern France, escorted by German soldiers.

Partial view of Stalag III-D (prisoner-of-war camp), located near Berlin.

Interior of a prisoner barracks at Stalag 1-A, near Stablack (East Prussia).

View of the camp at Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret).

Stencil (reproduction template) from *L’Humanité clandestine*, December 12, 1940.

American soldiers from Operation Torch on November 8, 1942, near Algiers. The landing was facilitated by the actions of Resistance fighters, most of whom were Algerian Jews.

British troops who had landed in Algiers hauling their equipment, November 8, 1942.

ID checks at the demarcation line crossing at the Chavannes Bridge in Châlon-sur-Saône.

A German sign on the demarcation line, near a checkpoint.

The boundary between the two areas, here at the Régémortes Bridge in Moulins-sur-Allier.

On November 11, 1942, the Wehrmacht (the Nazi army) occupied the “free” zone. The Occupation army was stationed in Toulouse, at Place du Capitole.

A German coastal battery in the mountains of southern France in 1942.

The Wehrmacht is involved in the Occupation of the so-called “free zone” (Operation Anton), here in Port-Vendres.

Westerbork (Netherlands): Jews (children, women, and men) board a train bound for the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

Soviet soldiers advancing along a trench amid the ruins of Stalingrad.

Soviet soldiers advancing through the ruins of Stalingrad (on the right bank of the Volga).

German soldiers taken prisoner after the surrender (February 2, 1943) of von Paulus’s Sixth Army at Stalingrad.