[Alberta's Child]

One of the best-kept secrets of World War II was that the U.S. didn't exactly "liberate" France. In fact, the Vichy government was the legitimate government of France at the time. The U.S. simply supported one faction in France against another.

For a variety of reasons, most of the French were quite content having a government in cahoots with the Nazis.

[You Dirty Rats]

Nonsense. Germany occupied all of France after the US and Britain landed in North Africa in November, 1942. That ended the Vichy Government. There was no Government of France until almost two years later, when the Allies recognized De Gaulle's Organization as the Provisional Government of France in October, 1944.

In addition, the portion of France liberated first (Northern France) was not part of Vichy, but under German occupation. Vichy only included southeastern France.