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  1. The government of unoccupied France after the
  2. defeat by the Germans in June 1940, named
  3. after the town where the cabinet under Prime
  4. Minister Petain was based until the
  5. liberation 1944. Vichy France was that part
  6. of France not occupied by German troops until
  7. Nov 1942. Authoritarian and collaborationist,
  8. the Vichy regime cooperated with the Germans
  9. even after they had moved to the unoccupied
  10. zone in November 1942.
  11.