Photos: Vichy documents

Files of the 1941 Rosenthal case are displayed by French historian Francois Le Goarant de Tromelin in the ‘reading room’ of the Paris Police Prefecture Archives department in Paris, France, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. Adolphe Rosenthal, jeweller and diamond dealer born in Russia in 1877 and shot to death in Paris in September 1941 in unclear circumstances.

Files and books are stored in the temperature-controlled storage room where historic archived documents are stored on shelves of the Paris Police Prefecture Archives department.

Pascale Etiennette, chief of the Paris Police Prefecture Archives department holds a file box in the controlled storage room where historic documents are stored in Paris, France, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. France is opening police and legal archives from the collaborationist Vichy regime, allowing free access to previously classified documents from World War II.

French historian Francois Le Goarant de Tromelin, holds a file of the 1941 Rosenthal case, in the ‘reading room’ of the Paris Police Prefecture Archives department in Paris, France, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015.

Gilles Morin, a French historian holds a file of of the collaborationist regime led by Philippe Petain from 1940 to 1944, in the ‘reading room’ of the Paris Police Prefecture Archives department, in Paris, France, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015.