Chrétiens et juifs sous Vichy (1940–1944): Sauvetage et désobéissance civile, Limore Yagil (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2005), 765 pp., €59
Since the end of the Second World War the turbulent historiography of the Vichy regime has been abundant and diverse. Ranging from the shaping of the past through the immediate postwar lens (when some saw Pétain's Vichy as the “shield” that had protected France against total occupation), to the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 500-503 |
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| Summary: | Since the end of the Second World War the turbulent historiography of the Vichy regime has been abundant and diverse. Ranging from the shaping of the past through the immediate postwar lens (when some saw Pétain's Vichy as the “shield” that had protected France against total occupation), to the post-Paxton revolutionary rewriting that uncovered and showcased widespread French collaboration, and on to the nuanced current studies of local socio-cultural history, the pendulum has swung in both directions.1 Marcel Ophüls' 1971 film Le chagrin et la pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity), which portrayed French attentisme (wait-and-see-ism), further undercut postwar visions of the “nation of resisters. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm055 |