France is not legally responsible for crimes committed by the nation’s wartime Vichy regime, according to the country’s interior minister. In a letter he wrote earlier this year that was released this week, Jean-Pierre Chevenement said the present French republic is the “very negation” of the pro-Nazi Vichy government.
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