The Papon Affair: Memory and Justice on Trial

ISBN-13: 9780415923644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 288 str.

Richard Joseph Golsan

Opis

This text concerns the trial that is now considered to be the most significant in late-20th-century France. The book brings together the crucial French journalistic pieces on the trial as well as contributions from leading French, British and American scholars. Together they contextualize this important event, delving deeply into the most explosive issues in recent French history.

Recenzje

"The balance between facts and perspectives makes this book an outstanding contribution to our understanding of a traumatic period of modern French history." -- Lois Vines, Ohio University French Review

Spis treści

Table of Contents: The Papon Affair Preface Part I-The Papon Affair:Historical, Legan and Psychoanalytic Perspectives Maurice Papon's REconversion and Itinerary after World War II: A Perfect's Road through Algeria to Paris (August 1944-October 1961)by Van Kelly Extreme Right Wing Perspectives on Papon and Tourvier Trialsby Christopher G. Flood The Papon Trial in an 'Era of Testimony'by Nancy Wood The Trial of Papon anf the Tribulation of Gaullismby Nathan Bracher The Legal Legacy of Maurice Paponby Leila Nadya Sadat Part II-Papon's Trial for Crimes Against Humanity and the Press An interview with Maurice Papon and Analysisby Annette Levy-Willard Vichy on Trialby Robert O. Paxton Today, Everything Converges on the Haunting Memory of Vichy: An Interview with Pierre Noraby Nicholas Weill and Robert Sole Those Who Organized the Trains Knew there would be Deaths: An Interview with Robert O. Paxtonby Annette Levy-Willard and Beatrice Vallaeys Maurice Papon was not Aloneby Zeev Sternhell The Papon Investigation Brings to Light the True Role of France in Nazi Europe: An Interview with Philippe Burrinby Thomas Ferenczi Papon: Too Lateby Henry Rousso Nazism, Vichy, and the Papon Trial seen by a German Historial: An Interview with Eberhard Jackelby Lucas Delattre Maurice Papon and Crime Pathologyby Michel Dubec Are We All Guiltyby Francois Maspero Letter from Paris: The Papon Trialby Tzevetam Todorov Part III-The Other Papon Trial: 17 October 1961 According to the Mandelkern REport Thirty Two Were Killed during the Night of 17 October 1961by Philippe Bernard October 1961: For the Truth, at Lastby Jean-Luc Einaudi One of the Few Times since the Nineteenth Century that Police Have Fired on Workers in Paris: An Interview with Benjamin Storaby Philippe Bernard Maurice Papon Delcares the Bloody Crackdown of 17 October 1961 'An Unfortuante Evening'by Acacio Pereira The Magistrate's Court of Paris Acknowledges the Extreme Violence of the Polcie Crackdown of 17 October 1961by Philippe Bernard Bibliography Appendix: Chronology

O autorze

Richard J. Golsan is Professor of French at Texas A&M University. He is the Editor of South Central Review and is the author of René Girard and Myth: An Introduction (1993) and Service Inutile: A Study of the Tragic in the Theatre of Henry De Montherland (1988). Among his edited volumes are Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs (1996) and Gender and Fascism in Modern France (1997).