Pierre Laval and the Eclipse of France
Author: Geoffrey Warner
Publisher: London : Eyre & Spottiswoode
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 514
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Author: Geoffrey Warner
Publisher: London : Eyre & Spottiswoode
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 514
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Published: 1988
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 461
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geoffrey Warner
Publisher: London : Eyre & Spottiswoode
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pierre Laval
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Kenneth Brody
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1351297740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a stunning work combining historical memory, legal ambiguity, and profound issues of justice, J. Kenneth Brody provides a picture of France in World War II that continues to haunt the present. Architect in 1940 of Marshal Petain's Vichy French regime and its prime minister from April 1942 to August 1944, at war's end Pierre Laval was promptly arrested on charges of treason. This book tells the story of his trial. Did he betray France, or did he serve France under terrible circumstances? What was the truth of "collaboration"? This book considers the pretrial proceedings, or lack thereof, the evidence, and the arguments of the prosecution, as well as Laval's vigorous defense in the early days of the trial. Because of irregularities in the preliminary proceedings, Laval's defense counsel declined from the outset to participate in the trial. For those reasons and because of the prejudicial conduct of the prosecution, on the third day of the trial, Pierre Laval also declined to participate further. What his defense might have been in a normal pre-trial proceeding and in a fair trial are matters of conjecture. What remains clear is that political trials are a unique form of law and moral judgment. Trials and history share a common goal-the truth. Trial, judgment, and appeal are intended to produce finality. History, on the other hand, is never final. After its performance in the trial of Pierre Laval, the government of France continued its policy of concealment, even though the truth could no longer determine the outcome of the trial. Slowly, by persistence, courage, and loyalty, history's claims to truth were established. This book presents the defense that might have been presented and then relates the final judgment, its grisly execution only eleven days after the trial opened, and its aftermath.
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Theodore Zeldin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 1222
ISBN-13: 9780198221784
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Author: Donna F. Ryan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780252065309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne-fourth of the Jews living in France - once considered an asylum for the politically dispossessed - were identified, rounded up, and deported to the death camps of eastern Europe during World War II. In this carefully documented, gripping account of the treatment and fate of French and foreign Jews in Marseille, Donna Ryan explores the extent to which the Vichy government participated in the German plans to exterminate them. Marseille was a major French city in the Vichy Zone that had a large Jewish population; the Italians, who sometimes thwarted French administrators, never occupied Marseille; and it was a regional office of the Commissariat General aux Questions Juives and the Union Generale des Israelites de France, which could provide documentation.
Author: Peter Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-04-12
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1134552963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present surveys the history of a fascinating but contentious political and intellectual tradition. Since 1789 the far right has been an important factor in French political life and in different eras has taken on a range of guises including traditionalism, ultra-royalism, radical nationalism, anti-Semitism and fascism. This book is structured around the five main phases of extreme right activity, and the author explores key questions about each: * Counter-revolution - what was the legacy of Joseph de Maistre's writings? * Anti-Third Republic protest - how was the 'new right' of the 1880s and 1890s different from the 'old right' of previous decades? * Inter-war fascism - how should we characterise the phenomenon of fascisme française? * Vichy - why did Pétain and Laval collaborate with the Nazis? * The Post-war far right - what is the relationship between Poujadism, Algérie Française and Le Pen's FN?