Verdict on Vichy: Power and Prejudice in the Vichy France Regime, Michael Curtis (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2003), 440 pp., 27.95
The verdict is in—Vichy France, though short-lived, willingly collaborated in the heinous crimes of the Third Reich. It defined Jews in line with Nazi racial thinking (three grandparents of the “Jewish race” or two if a spouse practiced the religion). It enacted some 168 laws excluding Jews from soc...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 311-314 |
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| Summary: | The verdict is in—Vichy France, though short-lived, willingly collaborated in the heinous crimes of the Third Reich. It defined Jews in line with Nazi racial thinking (three grandparents of the “Jewish race” or two if a spouse practiced the religion). It enacted some 168 laws excluding Jews from social, political, cultural, and intellectual life. It “Aryanized” Jewish property and participated directly and often exclusively in rounding up and deporting Jews (Curtis and others have shown there can be no doubt that Vichy officials knew exactly where the trains were headed). The power-drunk Vichy deputy prime minister Pierre Laval himself persuaded German authorities to arrest and deport Jewish children under sixteen in the Unoccupied Zone. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dci032 |