Choices in Vichy France : the French under Nazi occupation / John F. Sweets.

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Sweets, John F, 1945-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.Description: 1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199874255
0199874255
6613121320
9786613121325

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Choices in Vichy France.DDC classification:

940.53/44 22

LOC classification:

D802.F82 C627 1986eb

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Contents:

War, occupation, and society -- The new order at Clermont-Ferrand: political and moral renewal and the mobilization of youth -- The new order: the Legion Francaise de Combattants and the mobilization of adults -- The new order at Clermont-Ferrand: collaborationism -- The outcasts -- Public opinion at the grass roots -- Clermont through German eyes -- Resistance and liberation.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296) and index.

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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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