The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France Since 1944

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Harvard University Press, 1991 - History - 384 pages
From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a vivid memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. How has this proud nation dealt with les annees noires? What is the collective memory of those few years: what have the French chosen to remember, what have they chosen to conceal?

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The Neurosis
1
Vectors of Memory
219
Diffuse Memory
272
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