Vichy France and decolonization

Are we likely to see some ethnic cleansing in these regions if they try to rebel against French rule? :(

Also, I wonder if the loss of Alsace, Lorraine, Franche-Comte, and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais is going to make France--even a democratic France if/after the Vichy regime falls--more committed to keeping its overseas empire or at least parts of it.
The loss of 1870 was certainly influencial in the third republic participating in the scramble for Africa.
 
I think there might actually be plenty of French people willing to emigrate to Algeria or even other African colonies in such a scenario.
Simple human behaviour/psychology:
It's better to be a 2nd class citizen in an area where there's 3 classes of citizenship and hardly any 1st classers around, so de-facto there's just you and those under you. Rather than still be a 2nd class citizen, but live in an area where there's two tiers of citizenship and you're part of the 95% of 2nd classers lorded over by the 5%.
 
Algeria turned out to be a far bigger problem, and that was invaded before 1870 ( or even Napoleon III ).
I made the point to demonstrate why it is likely even a democratic France would try keeping it's colonies. If France doesn't see a future with 'grandeur' in Europe, it will turn elsewhere.
 
Imperialism as an ideology was discredited long before WW II. Britain had already agreed to eventual independence for India. (Churchill's intemperate opposition to this was a major factor in his exclusion from government in the 1930s.)

And it is silly to argue that Nazi Germany's military defeat somehow "discredited" indiscriminate violence. It was Nazi Germany that was discredited by its indiscriminate violence.
I disagree. The Wallied bombing of German and Japanese cities, looking the other way about Soviet atrocities, and knowing about the holocaust but doing nothing about it shows that as long as the murder was just a number, the West was not yet shoced by it. Imperialism dragged on for the next 20 years, so I think you are incorrect on all counts.
 
How does the post WW2 world look like?
Germany(+Vichy+Italy) vs Japan(+puppets) vs USA/UK(+rest of the empire)?

Everyone is going to flood the others colonies with weapons, this will be a lot nastier than Otl was. The one least impacted would be Germany as the plan from the beginning was to just kill everyone.

Would the Germans be willing to send troops to support French and Italian colonial wars in Africa, a place that has no role or purpose in the nazi German political and mythical ideology? I'm not really sure... Vichy has no chance in hell to keep up with US/UK support for insurgents and Germany wouldnt really mind an even more weakened France.
 
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