Vichy France and the Jews

Vichy France and the Jews
Author: Michael Robert Marrus
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804724999

Provides the definitive account of Vichy's own antisemitic policies and practices. It is a major contribution to the history of the Jewish tragedy in wartime Europe answering the haunting question, "What part did Vichy France really play in the Nazi effort to murder Jews living in France?"

Escape from Vichy

Escape from Vichy
Author: Eric T. Jennings
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2018-03-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674983386

Early in World War II, thousands of refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique, en route to safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer, the exiles formed influential ties--with one another and with local black dissidents. As Eric T. Jennings shows, what began as expulsion became a kind of rescue.

The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France

The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France
Author: Shannon L. Fogg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521899443

This book examines how material distress shaped the interactions of native and refugee populations as well as perceptions of the Vichy government's legitimacy.

French Peasant Fascism

French Peasant Fascism
Author: Robert O. Paxton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1997
Genre: Fascism
ISBN: 0195111893

In 1920s France the far-right peasantry wanted an authoritarian and agrarian society. This study examines their singular lack of success and the enduring French perception of themselves as a peasant nation.

Vichy France

Vichy France
Author: Robert O. Paxton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231124690

A disturbing account of the Vichy period, demonstrating how in the interests of stability, French national feeling favored collboration with the German-controlled regime.

Unlikely Collaboration

Unlikely Collaboration
Author: Barbara Will
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0231152639

From 1941 to 1943, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein translated for an American audience thirty-two speeches in which Marshal Philippe Petain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government, outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and other "foreign elements" from the public sphere while calling for France to reconcile with its Nazi occupiers. Why and under what circumstances would Stein undertake such a project? The answers lie in Stein's link to the man at the core of this controversy: Bernard Faÿ, her apparent Vichy protector. Barbara Will outlines the formative powers of this relationship, treating their interaction as a case study of intellectual life during wartime France and an indication of America's place in the Vichy imagination.

Vichy

Vichy
Author: Eric Conan
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1998
Genre: France
ISBN: 9780874517958

A plea for a more moderate, balanced, and accurate view of the Vichy regime.

Verdict on Vichy

Verdict on Vichy
Author: Michael Curtis
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781559706896

Curtis draws upon the recent French government-sponsored reports of the complex "aryanization" process and the requisitioning of Jewish goods and property.

When France Fell

When France Fell
Author: Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674258568

Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy governmentÑa fateful decision that nearly destroyed the AngloÐAmerican alliance. According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the Òmost shocking single eventÓ of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of France in spring 1940. Michael Neiberg offers a dramatic history of the American responseÑa policy marked by panic and moral ineptitude, which placed the United States in league with fascism and nearly ruined the alliance with Britain. The successful Nazi invasion of France destabilized American plannersÕ strategic assumptions. At home, the result was huge increases in defense spending, the advent of peacetime military conscription, and domestic spying to weed out potential fifth columnists. Abroad, the United States decided to work with Vichy France despite its pro-Nazi tendencies. The USÐVichy partnership, intended to buy time and temper the flames of war in Europe, severely strained AngloÐAmerican relations. American leaders naively believed that they could woo men like Philippe PŽtain, preventing France from becoming a formal German ally. The British, however, understood that Vichy was subservient to Nazi Germany and instead supported resistance figures such as Charles de Gaulle. After the war, the choice to back Vichy tainted USÐFrench relations for decades. Our collective memory of World War II as a period of American strength overlooks the desperation and faulty decision making that drove US policy from 1940 to 1943. Tracing the key diplomatic and strategic moves of these formative years, When France Fell gives us a more nuanced and complete understanding of the war and of the global position the United States would occupy afterward.

Vichy and the Eternal Feminine

Vichy and the Eternal Feminine
Author: Francine Muel-Dreyfus
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822327745

Argues that the Vichy regime used symbolic violence to reshape a liberal culture based on individual rights into one of deference to hierarchical authority.