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| Henri Pétain was a French military hero in World War I (1914-1918). During World War II in 1940 Pétain became chief of state at Vichy, the French territory under control of the occupying Germans. He ruled as a dictator with the consent of the Nazi regime, suspending the constitution and deporting Jews to German concentration camps. | ||||||
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| World War I; Fascism; France; Pétain, Henri Philippe | ||||||
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