Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Nazi Jamus ta mamaye Faransa a watan Mayu 1940 a farkon ɓangaren Yaƙin Duniya na II. Hukuncin Armistice na 22 ga Yuni 1940 ya kawo karshen tashin hankali, ya raba Faransa zuwa yankuna biyu: Yankin da aka mamaye a arewa da yamma, da kuma "yancin yanki" ("Zone libre") a kudu da gabas. An san shi a matsayin "Faransa na Faransa", an san shi da "Vichy regime" don wurin da babban birninsa yake. Gwamnatin ta kasance karkashin jagorancin Marshal Philippe Pétain, wanda aka ba shi cikakken iko don sarrafa mulkin. A watan Nuwambar 1942, Jamus ta mallaki Jamus, saboda amsawar da Allies suka yi a Arewacin Afirka.
Ka yi haƙuri. Vichy ya rasa ƙarfin sojan sa, amma ya ci gaba da yin hukunci a kan yawancin Metropolitan Faransa har zuwa sannu-sannu na tsarin Vichy bayan mamayewar Allied a watan Yunin 1944 da kuma ci gaba da 'yanci na Faransa.