Jean-Pierre Azema, the Historian Who Broke Out Truths About the French Under Vichy

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Son of a collaborator, he was obsessed throughout his life with revealing the true nature of Vichy's regime in France. Jean-Pierre Azema, one of the greatest experts of the Second World War, died on Monday 14 July in Paris, at the age of 87.

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A specialist in collaboration, the historian died on Monday 14 July. He was 87 years old.

Le Huffington Post

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Son of a collaborator, he has long taught at Sciences Po and has written numerous books on the Resistance and Vichy. He has also been a consultant for the series "Un village français".

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Disappearance of a reference historian, Jean-Pierre Azema, prominent figure in the study of France during the Second World War Historian Jean-Pierre Azema, great specialist in the Second World War

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The Vichy regime and resistance specialist died on Tuesday at the age of 87.

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Son of a collaborationist who had fled France at the end of the Second World War, he devoted most of his work to the study of this period. He died on 14 July, at the age of 87.