Verdict On Vichy
Book description
This masterful book is the first comprehensive reappraisal of the Vichy France regime for over 20 years. France was occupied by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1944, and the exact nature of France's role in the Vichy years is only now beginning to come to light. One of the main…
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This book is so well written and researched that readers would find its 400-plus pages fascinating even if they knew the verdict going in. What is it? Guilty as charged.
Vichy France collaborated fully and, at times, even enthusiastically with the Nazis. Even those who have already gotten over the shock of realizing this should prepare to experience a series of smaller disturbances while reading this book. The one that continues to haunt me is realizing Hitler borrowed several of the antisemitic laws Vichy passed. In some cases, they proved stricter than the Third Reich’s.
Although I had no family…
Making Cojot, a documentary about a Parisian business consultant who hunted down former Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, prompted me to closely examine Vichy. This French national administration went out of its way to appease its Nazi occupiers during World War II. But the more answers I dug up, the more questions I had. Verdict on Vichy filled in many of the gaps. For instance, it provided a possible explanation as to why the judges presiding over Barbie’s 1987 trial in Lyon granted his request to sit out the proceedings, thus depriving his victims’ families the opportunity to look him…
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