Choices in Vichy France : The French Under Nazi Occupation
John. Sweets
Bok Engelsk 1986 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Oxford : : Oxford University Press, USA, , 1986.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (319 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; 1 War, Occupation, and Society; 2 The New Order at Clermont-Ferrand: Political and Moral Renewal and the Mobilization of Youth; 3 The New Order: The Légion Françhise des Combattants and the Mobilization of Adults; 4 The New Order at Clermont-Ferrand: Collaborationism; 5 The Outcasts; 6 Public Opinion at the Grass Roots; 7 Clermont through German Eyes; 8 Resistance and Liberation; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Films like The Sorrow and the Pity and Lacombe Lucien, as well as recent scholarship, have replaced the old Gaullist myth of Nazi-occupied France and ""a nation of resisters"" with a new myth of ""a nation of collaborators."" John Sweets's provocative assessment challenges both stereotypes. From evidence gathered at Clermont-Ferrand, the largest town near Vichy, the Occupation capitol, Sweets found the French far less devoted to Petain than some have argued, and far more supportive of de Gaulle than has been suspected. The New Order was emphatically rejected by most of the French, he concludes
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| ISBN | 0195037510
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