A French guard helps to keep watch over dozens of Jewish prisoners in one of the Vichy operated internment camps. Inmates at these prisons were often guarded by the French until they could be handed over to the Germans for transportation to Nazi death camps.

Vichy Prison

Jewish captives sit in misery inside one of the French run prison camps. The Vichy government willingly assisted Germany in it's policy of "racial cleansing".

Prisoners of the Vichy

French soldiers of the 3rd hussards training in la Courtine, Corrèze, may 1942.