France had surrendered to nazi germany and was under vichy control , worried that it would also lose its indochinese colonies to japan .
法国向纳粹(nazi)德国投降并处于维希(vichy)控制之下,忧虑亦将失去印度支那殖民地给日本。
The author 's research brings to light some startling facts . Even war buffs may be surprised to learn that the supposedly supine vichy regime in france executed german spies , or that more frenchmen fought on the axis side than with the allies .
It took 40 years to elapse before a french president , jacques chirac , was able to acknowledge in public that vichy france had collaborated in the holocaust and to apologise .