The Complete Story of French Collaboration in the Holocaust
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/12/1999
The crime of Marshal Philippe Petain, hero of World War I and "national savior" after the fall of France in 1940, was to preside over France's enthusiastic and autonomous contribution to the extermination of European Jews. As head of state of the "free" Vichy government after the Nazi occupation, Petain directed the French collaboration in the Holocaust. These facts of France's complicity have long been covered by secrecy and censorship, and Petain has been seen as a benign and humane leader. Mr. Webster sets the record straight, detailing concentration camps in France set up even before the war began; systematic persecution of Jews under a purely French government; the leading role of French police in mass roundups ordered by Petain. The Marshal was personally involved from the first anti-Semitic legislation of July 1940 up to the deportation of the last trainload of French Jews to the death camps in August 1944. As Mr. Webster shows, ideological anti-Semitism had been part of the French political and philosophical tradition for many years before the fall of France. This disturbing book, a controversial best-seller in Paris, reveals that Petain's government represented the appalling culmination of a century of persecution.
- ISBN:
- 9781566632492
- 9781566632492
- Category:
- Political science & theory
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 18-12-1999
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Ivan R Dee, Inc
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 239
- Dimensions (mm):
- 227x156x17mm
- Weight:
- 0.39kg
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