There is a great deal of debate among historians concerning what role the government and populace of Vichy France played in the outcome of World War II. American historian Robert Paxton wrote: “no one who lived through the French debacle of May-June 1940 ever got over the shock. For Frenchmen, confident of a special role in the world, the six weeks’ defeat by German armies was a shattering trauma.”[1] The unexpected rapid defeat of France shattered the confidence of the Allies in their quest to curb or if possible halt Hitler’s blatant aggression and obvious intension to dominate Europe and the World.