What's the general consensus

On Vichy?

Didn't lasted too much for it to be judged, but it seems better than what the fuck it is that exists today.

even with just half the country?

Better than every other XX century french systems. But takes place in the defeat and war time so they don't manage to do much.

>subjugates itself to the Germans
>relinquishes the best parts of France
>ruled by the same military establishment that fucked up badly during the last war(s)
>represses the true French opposition that actually wants to fight back and restore France's grandeur
>stand-by and do nothing as their country gets burned and pillaged by a foreign occupier

Literally a Cucknation

Based Petain was based.

This paints a different picture tho

If France didn't want to be occupied, it shouldn't have invaded Germany. Hitler offered the French peace talks when they occupied the Saar Land. That seems fairly magnanimous to me.

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Doesn't make petain based

Collaboration with the enemy is the highest form of cuckoldry and should be punished swiftly and violently.

Much better a prolong war killing millions, what was french casualties in ww2?
Non existent.

Wow you literally don't know what your talking about at all. 600,000 is the total amount of Frenchies that died in ww2, more than either the UK or Italy.

>>represses the true French opposition that actually wants to fight back and restore France's grandeur

You mean the commies and the kikes.

Anyhow, France has been finished in 1940. Vichy or De Gaulle stuff are irrelevant.

Germany was finished in 1945.

Now it's quckly being taken over by muzzies. By 2100, it will be laughing stoke.

VICHY FRANCE IS BEST FRANCE

Petáin was a tragic hero, he did what he thought was the only way to save France and get the best of only bad outcomes. Moreover, Vichy France never formally joined the Axis, so Petáin just wanted to rebuild France and be left out of the war. This was of course made hard to do by de Gaulle and the Free French, who wanted to fight to the death. De Gaulle and Petáin really were just different sides of the same coin, who only differed in the way they saw was the best way to save France. Petáin wasn't either truly a fascist, more like a reactionary who tried to transform France from the rampant degeneracy, decadence and communism back towards traditionalism and nationalism. In my opinion, Petáin should be rehabilitated and be seen as a tragic hero, like Saigo Takamori is in Japan.

To surrender to collaborate with the enemy is to destroy the bedrock of your nation. You might as well be driving a dagger through the heart of every patriot yourself by doing that.

At least Takamori had the decency to take his own life as penance for his failure.

>de Gaulle
>fight to the death

>Petáin was a tragic hero, he did what he thought was the only way to save France and get the best of only bad outcomes. Moreover, Vichy France never formally joined the Axis, so Petáin just wanted to rebuild France and be left out of the war. This was of course made hard to do by de Gaulle and the Free French, who wanted to fight to the death. De Gaulle and Petáin really were just different sides of the same coin, who only differed in the way they saw was the best way to save France. Petáin wasn't either truly a fascist, more like a reactionary who tried to transform France from the rampant degeneracy, decadence and communism back towards traditionalism and nationalism. In my opinion, Petáin should be rehabilitated and be seen as a tragic hero, like Saigo Takamori is in Japan.

He was too weak and politically clueless to even grab what was going on. Neutrality in an occupied country is a farce. De Gaulle at least was clever enough to play the political game 100%.