Foreign relations of Vichy France policy of keeping 2 million French prisoners of war in Germany, effectively as hostages. Although Vichy France was nominally in control of all of France--apart from Alsace Lorraine--in practice the Germans controlled over half of the country, including the northern and western coasts, the industrial northeast, and the Paris region. The Petain government in Vichy controlled the rest until October 1942, when Germany took it all over. At that point, the Vichy regime became entirely a puppet of the German occupiers. Germany wanted food, minerals, and industrial productions, as well as volunteers to work in German factories. Vichy was allowed
Morocco in World War II attempting to flee Morocco in favour of America or Palestine, were moved to detention centres, with some refugees who were considered a threat to the Vichy regime being sent to Moroccan labour camps. The American landings in 1942, were hoped by the Jews to mean the end of the Vichy laws, but General Nogues persuaded the Allies to allow for the continuation of French rule and Vichy laws, meaning the discrimination continued. The Moroccan Nationalist movement gained momentum in Morocco in World War II. Nationalists in Spanish Morocco created the 'National Reform Party' and the 'Moroccan Unity Movement', which united