France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation, it uncovers the conflicting memories of occupation which ensure that even today France continues to debate the legacy of the Vichy years. |
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Contents
Responding to the Germans | |
Notables and Peasants | |
Business | |
The Workers | |
13Intellectuals Artists and Entertainers | |
Reputations | |
Culture under Vichy | |
German Ambiguities | |
The SoldierPeasant | |
The Disappearance of France | |
Old Mother or New Woman? | |
Scenes of the Future | |
The New Classicism | |
Morand and Céline | |
18901934 | |
La Fin des notables? | |
The Maurrassian Moment | |
Missed Opportunities? | |
19281930 | |
1930 | |
Liberalism Contested 19321934 | |
3Class WarCivil War | |
19261932 | |
The Depression | |
The Rights Response | |
The Lefts Response | |
The Consequences of the Popular Front | |
4The German Problem | |
The Pragmatic Tradition | |
The Pacifist Consensus | |
The Impact of Hitler | |
From AntiCommunism to Conservative NeoPacifism | |
A New Sweden? | |
Prelude to Vichy or Republican Revival? | |
AntiCommunism and Imperialism | |
The Authoritarian Republic | |
Foreigners and Jews | |
Race and the Republican Tradition | |
6The Debacle | |
Drôle de guerre and AntiCommunism | |
Defeat and Exodus | |
Armistice or Capitulation? | |
Enter Pétain | |
The Armistice | |
The End of the Republic | |
Was Vichy Legal? | |
National Revolution and Collaboration | |
Introduction to Part II | |
7The National Revolution | |
Vichy Governments | |
Doctrine | |
Sources | |
Education | |
State and Society The Fascist Temptation | |
The Economy | |
8Collaboration | |
Involuntary CollaborationVoluntary Collaboration | |
What a lot of authorities | |
Montoire | |
The Fall of Laval | |
The British Connection | |
The Protocols of Paris | |
Collaboration goes on | |
Economic Collaboration | |
9Collaborationism | |
Doriot and Déat | |
The Rank and File | |
Leftist Collaborationism | |
Circles of Influence | |
Je suis partout | |
Literary Collaborationism | |
Collaborationism as SelfHatred | |
19421943 | |
Oberg Sauckel Dannecker Röthke | |
16 July 1942 | |
The Collaborationists Attack | |
The North African Imbroglio | |
Shrinking Power | |
The Milice | |
Endgame | |
The Balance Sheet | |
Part IIIVichy the Germans and the French People | |
Introduction to Part III | |
11Propaganda Policing and Administration | |
Other Maps | |
Propaganda | |
Intermediaries | |
Repression and Administration | |
Propagandists of Truth | |
Loyalty without Enthralment | |
12Public Opinion Vichy and the Germans | |
From Disenchantment to Opposition | |
The Pétain Cult | |
Private Lives | |
Temptations and Sophistries | |
Continuing France | |
Ambiguities and Paradoxes | |
14Reconstructing Mankind | |
Moral HygieneSocial Hygiene | |
Family Values | |
Women Vichy and the Germans | |
Aspirations and Reality | |
A Pétainist Deviation? | |
Pockets of Health Mounier | |
An Architect at Vichy | |
An Economist at Vichy | |
15Vichy and the Jews | |
Vichy AntiSemitismNazi AntiSemitism | |
The Holocaust in France | |
French and Immigrants | |
Jewish Resistance | |
Indifference and Hostility | |
Solidarity and Rescue | |
Part IVThe Resistance | |
Introduction to Part IV | |
16The Free French 19401942 | |
De Gaulle and his Allies | |
The National Committee | |
De Gaulles Ideology | |
De Gaulle and the French | |
17The Resistance 19401942 | |
Glimmers in the Night | |
Movements and Networks | |
North and South | |
Towards Ideology | |
Catholics and Socialists | |
The Communists | |
Towards Unity | |
18De Gaulle and the Resistance 1942 | |
First Contacts | |
Moulin and the Resistance | |
Geography and Sociology | |
How to Resist? | |
Competitors | |
19Power Struggles 1943 | |
Moulin Brossolette and the Movements | |
The CNR | |
De Gaulle and Giraud | |
The Resistance Fights Back | |
Communist Policy | |
Responding to the Communists | |
Communist Infiltration? | |
20Resistance in Society | |
Diversification and Radicalization | |
The Disintegration of Vichy | |
The Maquis | |
The Peasantry and the Resistance | |
Women in the Resistance | |
Foreigners in the Resistance | |
Communists and Writers | |
National Insurrection | |
21Remaking France | |
Shared Values | |
An Abortive Third Way | |
The New Elite | |
Making Plans | |
Building a Clandestine State | |
Part VLiberation and After | |
Introduction to Part V | |
January to June 1944 | |
Defeat of arms victory of souls | |
Springtime of Fear | |
Pétain in Paris | |
The Communists | |
What Kind of Insurrection? | |
23Liberations | |
COMAC v London | |
MicroHistories | |
De Gaulle in Bayeux | |
The Last Days of Vichy | |
Liberation and Insurrection | |
The Liberation of Paris | |
From One Spa to Another | |
24A New France? | |
Restoring Order | |
Myth and Reality | |
Cleansing the Community | |
The Trials | |
Intellectuals in the Dock | |
The Resistance Betrayed? | |
Remembering the Occupation | |
AppendixThe Camps of Vichy France | |
Bibliographical Essay | |
Index | |
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Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 Modern World Series |
| Author | Julian Jackson |
| Publisher | OUP Oxford, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0191622885, 9780191622885 |
| Length | 688 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / France History / Europe / General History / Military / World War II Political Science / Terrorism |
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