What a coincidence that I’m checking the site 7 minutes after Chikuku.
I agree that Petain betrayed his country and himself, but I think his value to the Nazis was sheer publicity value and nothing more. The man was way too doddering to help run the place (like Quisling) or to impart useful intelligence (like Arnold) - or even to really grasp what he was doing. He just liked right-wing ideology, pomp and flattery. Plus, he did wake up. After 1942 he didn’t even have a real title, and the Germans had to kidnap him in 1944 to keep him aboard. By then he was 88. I consider him pathetic.
What a coincidence that I’m checking the site 7 minutes after Chikuku.
I agree that Petain betrayed his country and himself, but I think his value to the Nazis was sheer publicity value and nothing more. The man was way too doddering to help run the place (like Quisling) or to impart useful intelligence (like Arnold) - or even to really grasp what he was doing. He just liked right-wing ideology, pomp and flattery. Plus, he did wake up. After 1942 he didn’t even have a real title, and the Germans had to kidnap him in 1944 to keep him aboard. By then he was 88. I consider him pathetic.
I say, let the residents keep their street name!