From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. In this provocative study, Henry Rousso examines how this proud nation--a nation where reality and myth commingle to confound understanding--has dealt with les annees noires. Specifically, he studies what the French have chosen to remember--and to conceal.
From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation, and repr...
In this volume Europe's leading modern historians offer new insights into two totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century that have profoundly affected world history-Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. Until now historians have paid more attention to the similarities between these two regimes than to their differences. Stalinism and Nazism explores the difficult relationship between the history and memory of the traumas inflicted by Nazi and Soviet occupation in several Eastern European countries in the twentieth century. The first part of the volume explores the origins, nature,...
In this volume Europe's leading modern historians offer new insights into two totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century that have profoundly affec...
In The Haunting Past, French historian Henry Rousso discusses the varied and controversial treatments of French collaboration with the Nazis during the Vichy regime, focusing specifically on the roles played by historians, and history itself, in the postwar trials of accused collaborators.
While discussion of Nazi collaboration was mostly suppressed in the years immediately following World War II, recent changes in public sentiment paved the way for formal trials of former Vichy officials charged with collaborating with Nazi Germany. In a series of pointed interviews conducted...
In The Haunting Past, French historian Henry Rousso discusses the varied and controversial treatments of French collaboration with the Nazis...
Das scheinbar unabhängige Frankreich und die Kollaboration mit Nazi-Deutschland Das Regime von Vichy wurde nach der französischen Niederlage im Juni 1940 auf deutschen Druck hin etabliert. Seine Legitimation bezog es fast ausschließlich vom Ruf seines greisen Führers, dem Marechal Petain, aber auch ohne direkten deutschen Druck strebte das Regime eine nationalistische und rassistische Umwandlung der französischen Gesellschaft und eine Eingliederung Frankreichs in ein von Deutschland beherrschtes Europa an. Auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung gibt dieses Buch eine chronologische...
Das scheinbar unabhängige Frankreich und die Kollaboration mit Nazi-Deutschland Das Regime von Vichy wurde nach der französischen Niederlage im Juni...
The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today's historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This book reflects on the concept and practices of what is called "contemporary history," a history of the present time, and identifies special tensions in the field between knowledge and experience, distance and proximity, and objectivity and subjectivity. Henry Rousso addresses the rise of contemporary history and...
The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter contro...
This book brings together world-renowned scholars from the UK, Ireland, Germany, France and elsewhere across mainland Europe to analyse how successive Europes have been constructed in the wake of the key conflicts of the period: the Cold War and the two World Wars. By regressively tracing Europe's path back to these pivotal moments as part of a unique methodology, Europe's Postwar Periods - 1989, 1945, 1918 reveals the defining characteristics of these postwar periods and integrates the changes that followed 1989 into a more substantial historical perspective.
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This book brings together world-renowned scholars from the UK, Ireland, Germany, France and elsewhere across mainland Europe to analyse how success...
