France opens access to archives from Vichy wartime era

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Many documents relating to when Pétain regime collaborated with Nazi occupiers during World War II can now be ‘freely consulted’.

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France will throw open access to police and legal archives drawn from one of the country’s darkest hours, when the Vichy regime collaborated with Nazi occupiers during the second world war, authorities said on Sunday, reports The Guardian.