Philippe Petain
1856 CE–1951 CE · Vichy
Philippe Pétain was a French army officer, celebrated for his command at the Battle of Verdun in the First World War, who led the collaborationist Vichy France regime from 1940 to 1944. After France's defeat by Germany in 1940, he assumed near-absolute power as head of state and directed a policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany. His government enacted antisemitic laws and its police carried out the arrest and deportation of tens of thousands of Jews from France to Nazi death camps, including the Vél d'Hiv roundup of July 1942. After the war he was convicted of treason and sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment, and died in confinement in 1951.
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