Pierre Laval, the Prime Minister of (Vichy) France, stated in a radio address;
I wish for a German victory, because, without it, Bolshevism tomorrow would settle everywhere.
He was in his third period of being the Prime Minister, with the second and third both being during the Vichy period.
The statement came as a shock to many of his countrymen, who assumed that Vichy France was playing a waiting game until an Allied liberation would come. Laval, however, had come to heavily sympathize with the Nazis.
Laval had been Prime Minister in 1931-32. He originally had been a pacifist Socialist politician and a lawyer who championed working men, but by the 1940s he'd migrated towards fascism. He was executed following a trial after the war.
Sarah Sundin reports the following for today:
Today in World War II History—June 22, 1942: Germans take Bardia, Libya. US Flag Code becomes public law, regarding the Pledge of Allegiance and treatment of the flag.
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