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Listening to Silence

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The elegant French spa town of Vichy has never lived down the moment in 1940 when it became home to the wartime government of Marshal Petain which collaborated with the Nazis. In this concluding programme, James Maw discovers how the town has become a symbol for a wider and still raw debate in France about its role during the Second World War. He speaks to historians, politicians, Jewish survivors, former resistance fighters and to a group for whom Petain remains a hero. Producer Rob Ketteridge

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