In 1940, Marshal Philippe Petain announced that France had asked for armistice terms from Germany.

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In 1940, the French National Assembly gave plenary powers to the government of Marshal Petain.

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In 1945, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during World War Two, was arrested on treason charges.

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"My mother wanted to leave, " he later recalled, "but my father paradoxically still had faith in Marshal Petain" -- then the ruler of Vichy France, the part unoccupied by Nazi forces.

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