Manhattan borough president says leadership of French Vichy regime, which helped deport tens of thousands of Jews to concentration camps, 'embody the worst of humanity'

At former railway station used to deport Jews to Auschwitz, France's president will acknowledge that 'French society is not finished with antisemitism'

Appeals court confirms earlier ruling that ex-presidential candidate didn't deny crimes against humanity by saying Philippe Pétain sacrificed foreign Jews to save Jewish citizens

Former soldier, whose family has Jewish origins, left France in 1938 for an internship in the US and enlisted after seeing France's Vichy leader shake hands with Adolf Hitler