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The Sorrow and the Pity is a two part documentary by Marcel Ophüls that concerns the French resistance and collaboration with the Vichy government and the Nazis during World War II. This 1969 film used interviews of a German officer, collaborators, and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature and reasons for collaboration. The reasons include anti-Semitism, xenophobia, fear of Bolsheviks, and simple caution. Part one, The Collapse, has an extended interview with Pierre Mendès-France. He had been jailed for Anti-Vichy action and later served as Prime Minister of France. Hence he had opposed the Vichy and the Nazis. The center of Part II, The Choice, revolved around René de Chambrun who is something of a counterpoint to that. De Chambrun was one of 7,000 French youth to fight on the eastern front wearing German uniforms. The film shows the French people's response to occupation as heroic, pitiable, monstrous, and sometimes all at once. The humiliation of the women who served Vichy men perhaps gave the strongest mix of all three.

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