Complex sentence: Key right-wing leaders and politicians, led by the aging Philippe Pétain and the corrupt, power-hungry Pierre Laval, stepped in, proclaiming their devotion to the survival of France within a Hitlerian New Order.
Split into simpler sentences: Key right-wing leaders and politicians, led by the aging Philippe Pétain and the corrupt, power-hungry Pierre Laval, stepped in. Proclaiming their devotion to the survival of France within a Hitlerian New Order.