Vichy/ Free France and Lead up

VIF 221

French propaganda Bajus Rentre a Paris. Shortly after the fall of Narvik. Not sure if complete.

Price: $120.00

VIF 220

One of the last pieces of propaganda issued by the French Secretary General of Information and Propaganda just a few weeks before Paris was liberated. It translates as: they murder! envelopes in the folds of our flag. they commit their crimes wrapped in the folds of our flag. They sabotage but it is French people they kill, because the convoys of the occupying troops are well protected.. they murder and unconscious people pay for them. Women and children suffer more severe restrictions. trains of freed prisoners turn around. they betray. the "Times" of August 1 admits that on board the Potomac, the Anglo-Saxons and the Russians shared the world; Europe was awarded to the Soviets and their agents, the communists. they want to add to the massacres of foreign war the horrors of civil war.

Price: $180.00

VIF 219

Vichy propaganda Ouvriers! La Roue Tournee. It promotes the program of the Vichy Regime.

Price: $190.00

VIF 216

Les Guts Revolutionnaires de la Legion Francaise e Combattants. It gives 10 point promoting the glory of France and warning against the jews and the masons.

Price: $270.00

VIF 215

1941 French propaganda against Jews, Masons and the English. Titled Ragots Bobards et Racontars.

Price: $200.00

VIF 213

1941 Vichy publication by the Secretary General for Youth, titled On the threshold of New Life. 37 pages.

Price: $190.00

VIF 212

Anti-Vichy pamphlet put out by the Union of Republican Youth of France, in Marseille.

Price: $200.00

VIF 210

Almanach du Croise 1941. By the Apostolat de la Priere in Toulouse. Full of childrens games and stories. Rare, especially in this condition.

Price: $290.00

VIF 208

French children’s ABC teaching aid produced shortly after the fall of France. Heavily anti-English and anti-semitic. Missing letters E to S, unfortunately. Very rare.

Price: $150.00

VIF 207

Small archive of Vichy propaganda press photos. Shows Petain at Notre Dame in Paris following an Allied air raid; Petain in Auvergne celebrating the anniversary of the Legion; Secretary of State for Supply attempting to calm the public about the supply problem; Petain arriving at a sports stadium; Mr. Duranne, secretary of the Friends of the Marshall, speaking; public protest over English aggression; Petain at Metz on December 6-8, 1918; Petain in Southern France with rare shot of Renee Bousquet standing behind him; Vichy advertising on the wall of a hotel. All but one of nine photos captioned. B

Price: $600.00

Note from Wikipedia: VIF 207René Bousquet (11 May 1909 – 8 June 1993) was a high-ranking French political appointee who served as secretary general to the Vichy French police from May 1942 to 31 December 1943. For personal heroism, he had become a protégé of prominent officials before the war and had risen rapidly in the government. In 1949, he was automatically convicted as a Vichy official and sentenced to five years of indignité nationale, but his sentence was reduced due to beliefs that he also aided the French Resistance and attempted to preserve some autonomy for French police during the German occupation. Excluded from the government, he went into business. After receiving amnesty in 1959, Bousquet became active again in politics by supporting left-wing politicians through the 1970s and becoming a regular visitor in the 1980s of François Mitterrand after his election as president. In 1989, after years of increasing accusations about his activities during the war, Bousquet was accused by three groups of crimes against humanity. He was ultimately indicted by the French Ministry of Justice in 1991 for his decisions during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942, which led to Jewish children being deported and killed in German extermination camps in Eastern Europe. Bousquet was assassinated in 1993 by Christian Didier shortly before his trial was to begin.

VIF 206

Two anti-Hitler French postcards. B

Price: $140.00

VIF 205

Vichy issued ink blotter warning the French Militia of the dangers of communism. B

Price: $200.00

VIF 202

Promotional book of photo images of Petain from 1939-1941. By the Bureau du Chef de l’Etat. B

Price: $250.00

VIF 200

Chocolate box decorated with Vichy propaganda. Rare. B

Price: $300.00

VIF 198

Un Siecle de Perfidies (A Century of Perfidy). Published in 1936, it is a collection of anti-British satirical cartoons over the previous 70 years. 31 pages. B

Price: $250.00

VIF 196