France opens archives on Second World War's Vichy regime

Files on the French resistance, communists and Jews hunted by the collaborationist Vichy government in France during the Second World War are now accessible to the public.

The French government has opened police and legal archives, allowing free access to hundred of thousands of documents from the regime that collaborated with the Nazi German occupiers between 1940 and 1944, as well as to investigative documents from the post-liberation government.