VIF 229
Vichy period childrens propaganda book Il etait une fois un Pays Heureux… (once upon a time there was a happy country...). Rare. Not shown in Worldcat
Price: $300.00
Vichy/ Free France and Lead up
VIF 228
Text of the Armistice of June 1940 between Germany and France as well as Italy and France. 30 pages.
Price: $150.00
VIF 227
4 satirical postcards of the Nazi occupation of Alsace.
Price: $200.00
VIF 226
Agenda de la Jeunesse, 1941. A diary belonging to Willy Dalon, born in 1924. He was a radio operator. On December 3 he became a prisoner at age 17.
NOTE: The "Agenda de la Jeunesse 1941" is a rare, historical 192-page booklet and diary issued during World War II under the Vichy Regime in occupied France. It was published by the Secrétariat Général de la Jeunesse (General Secretariat of Youth) as an educational and ideological tool to promote the regime's "Révolution Nationale" values among French schoolchildren and adolescents. Rather than a standard blank diary, it contains daily civic reflections, patriotic quotes, and instructional sections emphasizing physical fitness, manual work, and moral discipline. The text intentionally discouraged critical dissent, advising youth toward practical "positive action" and building national pride over political skepticism. “Il n' y a qu'une mentalité qui vaille, celle qui vise à construire. La bouderie et l'esprit frondeur sont bons pour l' enfant mis au coin.”, as detailed in historical records from L'Argonnaute. Distributed widely across schools, youth camps (Chantiers de la jeunesse), and even sent to occupied zones to shape the mindset of the younger generation.
Price: $300.00
VIF 224
Le Progres de L’Allier Edition de Vichy. Running from 1940-1944, it supported the Vichy regime and was the last newspaper to shutdown in Vichy during the liberation. 5 editions from August 14 to August 27, two days after France was liberated. Not shown in Worldcat except 2 editions held at the National Library of France. However, when I searched the library I found nothing.
Price: $800.00
VIF 221
French propaganda Bajus Rentre a Paris. Shortly after the fall of Narvik. Not sure if complete.
NOTE: " Bajus returns to Paris " is an illustrated propaganda brochure published in 1940. Written by Raoul Guérin (who is also the creator of the character Toto), this booklet presents itself as an illustrated pamphlet praising collaboration and containing violent anti-British remarks . It was published in the context of the beginning of the Occupation and the early days of the Vichy regime.
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. Not found in Worldcat
NOTE: "Workers! The wheel turns!" is an expression and a propaganda theme directly linked to the politics of the working class under the Vichy regime . This phrase marks an attempt by Pétain's government to appeal to the working class while justifying collaboration. Vichy propaganda relied on the motto "Work, Family, Fatherland" and promoted a reactionary ideology. Regarding workers, the regime attempted to replace class struggle with a corporatist system, creating Organization Committees to control production and prohibiting strikes.
The phrase "The wheel turns" takes on its full meaning with the forced transfer of workers to Nazi Germany. Faced with the Third Reich's increased need for labor, the Vichy regime instituted the STO in 1942, institutionalizing the deportation of hundreds of thousands of young French men to German war factories. Propaganda posters of the time attempted to rehabilitate the image of the workers sent to work for "the next generation," seeking to conceal the repressive and forced nature of this departure to prevent young men from joining the Resistance. Contrary to the image glorified by propaganda, Vichy's labor policy had a radical effect on public opinion. The forced conscription of workers into Germany, roundups at factory gates, and miserable living conditions provoked waves of discontent. Production sites thus became veritable hotbeds of worker resistance against the regime and the Nazi occupiers
Price: $190.00
VIF 215
French propaganda against Jews, Masons and the English. Titled Ragots Bobards et Racontars. It refers to a rare, historically significant piece of antisemitic and anti-British propaganda distributed in France at the outbreak of World War II (circa 1940). Illustrated by Jean Chaperon, this propaganda was used to spread rumors and falsehoods during the German Occupation
Price: $200.00
VIF 213
1941 Vichy publication by the Secretary General for Youth, titled On the threshold of New Life. 37 pages.
NOTE: Intended for young conscripts of the French Youth Camps , this civilian paramilitary institution promoted the values of Marshal Pétain's National Revolution .The brochure served as a " Little Guide to Life " and was generally divided into two parts: Vichy ideology: It presented the program of the French State and instilled in young recruits the importance of work, discipline, returning to the land, and obedience. Community life: The book served as a practical manual for the daily lives of young people in camps, heavily inspired by scouting and outdoor living.
The Youth Camps constituted a mandatory eight-month national civil service for 20-year-olds, removing them from the "tempting" cities and assigning them to community work, particularly to address the shortage of agricultural labor. This program was under the authority of General de La Porte du Theil
Price: $190.00
VIF 212
Anti-Vichy pamphlet put out by the Union of Republican Youth of France, in Marseille. AH
NOTE: The Union of Republican Youth of France (UJRF) was a French political youth organization active from 1945 to 1956. It served as the de facto youth wing of the French Communist Party (PCF) following WW2, functioning temporarily as a broad mass-organization before being disbanded and replaced by the current Young Communists Movement.
Established in the spring of 1945, the UJRF replaced the former Federation Nationale des Jeunesses Communistes de France (FJCF). Its creation was tied to the postwar popularity of the communist resistance, allowing the group to amass approximately 250,000 adherents by the end of 1945. In its early years, the UJRF functioned primarily as a broad, mass-based organization that focused on cultural, social, and recreational events for French youth.
Over time, however, the organization shifted its focus, oscillating toward a more tightly controlled and highly politicized militant vanguard. By 1956, amidst changing political climates and ideological realignments within the French communist movement, the UJRF was officially dissolved. Its legacy was directly continued by the formation of the current Young Communists Movement of France (Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France), which maintains close ties to the PCF.
Price: $200.00
VIF 210
The Crusader's Almanac 1941 is an emblematic spiritual and recreational publication published by the Apostleship of Prayer in Toulouse. Designed for Catholic youth and families during World War II, this edition offered edifying texts and humorous drawings. 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
Dan L’honneur et la Dignite, Souvenirs de Vichy, by J. Sennep. B AH
Price: $300.00