Unless the whole world was deceived, the Vichy Government last week squarely and publicly placed its bet on Germany to win World War II. Not only did it yield to Germany, which men in France today ...

France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 for complex reasons. The proximate cause, of course, was the success of the German invasion, which left metropolitan France at the mercy of Nazi armies. But the ...

Last weekend’s European Parliament elections didn’t mark a decisive continental turn to the far right, as my colleague Bob Kuttner noted yesterday, but it did signal a menacing rise in support for ...