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La collaboration
Le 24 octobre 1940, sur le quai de la gare de Montoire, Pétain serre la main de Hitler. La France a fait le choix de la collaboration. Mais qui a intérêt à collaborer ? Les Français ou les Allemands ? Qui en sont les acteurs ? Quel rôle jouent les ultras ? Qui s'est enrichi ? Quelle est l'ampleur de la collaboration militaire ? Quel rôle a joué Vichy dans la déportation des Juifs de France et dans la répression de la Résistance ? A quel point intellectuels et artistes se sont-ils compromis ? Près de 600 documents - affiches, rapports, lettres, journaux intimes, insignes, tracts, procès-verbaux, mains courantes, pièces à conviction, registres d'écrou, albums photographiques, o...
Drancy
En mai 1944, Louis Aragon écrivait que le nom de Drancy faisait « frémir les Français les plus impassibles d'apparence ». Aujourd'hui, sur le site du camp par lequel sont passés 84 % des déportés juifs de France, une cité HLM côtoie un wagon et une statue monumentale, en vis-à-vis d'un musée-mémorial de la Shoah. Drancy a conservé en effet sa vocation initiale de logement social tout en devenant le lieu de mémoire central de la Shoah en France. C'est l'histoire complète de ce lieu qui est retracée dans ce livre. Elle démarre avec le projet architectural d'avant-garde des années 1930 et les « premiers gratte-ciel de la banlieue parisienne »; elle relate le passage par ce ...
Ego-histories of France and the Second World War
This volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their career to researching the history and memories of France during the Second World War. Basedin five different countries, Margaret Atack, Marc Dambre, Laurent Douzou, Hilary Footitt, Robert Gildea, Richard J. Golsan, Bertram M. Gordon, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Nettelbeck, Denis Peschanski, Renée Poznanski, Henry Rousso, Peter Tame, and Susan Rubin Suleiman have playeda crucial role in shaping and reshaping what has become a thought-provoking field of research. This volume, which also includes an interview with historian Robert O. Paxton, clarifies the rationales and driving forces behind their work and thus behind our current understanding of one of the darkest and most vividly remembered pages of history in contemporary France.
Jews in France During World War II
Now in English, the authoritative work on ordinary Jews in France during World War II.
Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945
Simon Kitson's Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945 offers a ’history from below’ analysis of the attitude of the Marseille Police between the Popular Front and the Liberation of France. Kitson highlights the specificities of policing France’s largest port: clientelism, corruption, a floating population and high levels of criminality, including organised crime. But he also demonstrates why many of his conclusions about Police attitude can be generalised to other parts of France and, in so doing, challenges many of the assumptions of the existing historiography. Although they zealously hunted down Jews and communists, the Police were not as reliable for the Vichy government as is commonly assumed and were, undoubtedly, far more involved in Resistance than most sectors of society.
One Hundred Years of History of the French Communist Party
The Communist Party appeared a hundred years ago on the French political and social scene. According to opinions and moments, it has been the party of Moscow, of those shot, of the working class, of the union of the left, the party of the foreigner or that of the nation. It has been underground, in government, in town halls, in factories or in the streets. Some considered it too revolutionary, others not enough. More than others, it aroused passions, positive or negative. It attracted many and repelled just as many. After the fall of the USSR, it decided to remain a communist party, while many others gave it up. But it no longer has the place it once had, in reality as in the imagination. This book does not intend to judge, but to provide keys to understanding. It is based on a considerable number of archives that are now available and is an ordered and distanced look at an object that is not lacking in complexity and no doubt even in mystery. This book has been translated from French to English thanks to a financial help from the Gabriel Péri Foundation and the LIR3S UMR Cnrs 7366 of Dijon.
Fathers, Families, and the State in France, 1914–1945
The state's policy with regard to fathers and fatherhood had a great impact on concepts of citizenship and gender in France in the era of the two World Wars. Drawing on new material that has only recently become available from the archives of the Vichy regime, Kristen Stromberg Childers analyzes the ways fathers were promoted as saviors of the nation after France's humiliating defeat by the Germans in June 1940. Childers argues that concern for the family and for the status of fathers in modern France was not merely a response to falling birthrates and German aggression, but was fundamental to the very notion of citizenship and political participation. The debate on men as gendered beings, C...
De Facto Trauma Reconsidered
This collection of essays revises contemporary trauma theory, from Freudian/Caruthian and post-structuralist perspectives. While Western trauma theory is often theorized according to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this volume discusses different forms of trauma that target decolonisation theories in Arab-Maghrebean and Afro-American contexts and Chinese narratives on courtesans. The contributors to this book also scrutinize the artistic representation of trauma in poetry and drama, adopting a cross-cultural approach to trauma theory.
Renegotiating French Identity
"In Renegotiating French Identity, Jane F. Fulcher addresses the question of cultural resistance to the German occupation and Vichy regime during the Second World War, specifically by addressing the role of music" -- source : éditeur.
European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s
Based on documents collected in six European countries, European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s is a transnational study of largely parallel developments in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain in the years 1933-1936. Triggered into action by the shock effect of the Nazi rise to power in Germany, socialists throughout Western Europe entered an unusually active period of practical reorientation and debate over political strategy which helped determine the contours of European politics up to the outbreak of World War II and beyond. Stressing the transnational dimension of this process while simultaneously integrating local, regional, and ...
