Vichy in village: The Association of Youth Chantiers in Villard-de-Lans
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Group 11 of the Chantiers de la Jeunesse, based in Villard-de-Lans in Vercors, is put in charge of inculcating the message of Pétain into the local youth while at the same time employing the youth in communal work in the forest. Group 11 becomes an important contact between the Vichy government and the rural and mountain communities. The young units that are incorporated reject this initiative, while the rest of the local population takes the side of the resistance movements that proliferate throughout Vercors.