[Citizen College Season 3] The Liquidation of France’s Vichy Regime

On November 1, 2019, the sixth lecture of the Citizen College Season 3 “Citizens and the World: Peace on the Korean Peninsula and International Politics” was given at Korea University’s Political Science & Economics Bldg. 101, co-hosted by the Seongbuk-gu Office and the Korea University Institute for Peace and Democracy. The sixth lecture was given by Professor Lee Yang-ho of the Institute for Peace and Democracy at Korea University.

This lecture, titled “Liquidation of  France’s Vichy regime,” was about looking at the ups and downs of the French Vichy regime and the nature of the policies it had run, and how Vichy Regime was liquidated after the war. When World War II broke out, German troops took over northern France as they passed through the Arden woodlands. In the south, Vichy was founded with the hero of the Battle of Verdung, Philippe Petain. Germany was able to occupy all of the French territory, but it was still able to establish Vichy regime in order to ease the resistance movement in France. However, the anti-Semitic and forced labor policies of the Vichy regime have made the resistance movement more active. In June 1944, the Normandy landing forced German troops out of France. The German army prevented Vichy regime from cooperating with the Allies, but the Vichy regime disappeared. Since then, the liquidation of Vichy regime was not only done in judicial liquidation, but also in politics, administration and business. What’s unusual is that a “taste” of shaving for women who collaborated in Germany has been punished.