Pétain's Crime: The Full Story of French Collaboration in the HolocaustArgues that Pétain's government was in no way a Nazi puppet, but pursued its own independent policy, rooted in French conservative anti-republican antisemitism (beginning from the period of the Action Française). Shows that the main Nazi actions (e.g. "the great roundup" of July 1942 in Paris), and many others, could not have been accomplished without the collaboration of the French police. Deals also with Natzweiler-Struthof, the only extermination camp in France; postwar trials against collaborators and Nazi war criminals, especially Klaus Barbie; and contrasts Vichy activities with the humanistic stance of the Italian occupation authorities in France. |
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Page 46
... administration had been forced to move out of Bordeaux when the Germans moved in , swapping the Atlantic port for Lyons , which had also been taken as an open city . The big south - eastern industrial and textile centre would have been ...
... administration had been forced to move out of Bordeaux when the Germans moved in , swapping the Atlantic port for Lyons , which had also been taken as an open city . The big south - eastern industrial and textile centre would have been ...
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... administration in France from the military command . The initial urgency , as far as Hitler was concerned , was to drain France economically while avoiding controversies that might force Germany to assume administration in the south ...
... administration in France from the military command . The initial urgency , as far as Hitler was concerned , was to drain France economically while avoiding controversies that might force Germany to assume administration in the south ...
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... administration . Retribution had begun six months before in Algeria with the execution of Pierre Pucheu . Darlan's former Interior Minister , whose repressive legislation had prepared the way for mass deportation , took refuge in North ...
... administration . Retribution had begun six months before in Algeria with the execution of Pierre Pucheu . Darlan's former Interior Minister , whose repressive legislation had prepared the way for mass deportation , took refuge in North ...
Contents
La Douce France | 1 |
The Origins of Hate | 11 |
A Republic Dies | 24 |
Copyright | |
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Pétain's Crime: The Full Story of French Collaboration in the Holocaust Paul Webster No preview available - 1991 |
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