France, the Dark Years by Jackson, Julian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

List of Maps and Figure Abbreviations

Introduction Historians and the Occupation

Ambiguities Péguy’s Frances 1945–1965: The Resistance writes its History 1970s: Enter the Vichy Regime 1980s: From Regime to Society Le Grand Absent : The Jews 1990s: The Resistance Returns

Part I Anticipations

Introduction

1 The Shadow of War: Cultural Anxieties and Modern Nightmares

Verdun: The Soldier-Peasant Dénatalité : The Disappearance of France Old Mother or New Woman? America: Scenes of the Future Le Rappel à l’ordre : The New Classicism Modernist Nightmares: Morand and Céline

2 Rethinking the Republic: 1890–1934

Before 1914: ‘La Fin des notables?’ The 1920s: The Maurrassian Moment 1919–1928: Missed Opportunities? The ‘Jeunes Équipes’: 1928–1930 The Tardieu Moment: 1930 The Nonconformists: Liberalism Contested 1932–1934

3 Class War/Civil War

The 1920s: Defending the Bourgeois Republic Fragile Consensus: 1926–1932 The Depression The 1930s Crisis: The Right’s Response The 1930s Crisis: The Left’s Response The Consequences of the Popular Front

4 The German Problem

From Caillautism to Briandism: The Pragmatic Tradition The Pacifist Consensus Rethinking Pacifism: The Impact of Hitler From Anti-Communism to Conservative Neo-Pacifism After Munich: A New Sweden?

5 The Daladier Moment: Prelude to Vichy or Republican Revival?

After Munich: Anti-Communism and Imperialism Daladier: The Authoritarian Republic Foreigners and Jews Race and the Republican Tradition

6 The Debacle

Causes and Consequences Drôle de guerre and Anti-Communism Defeat and Exodus Armistice or Capitulation? Enter Pétain The Armistice Enter Laval: The End of the Republic Was Vichy ‘Legal’?

Part II The Regime: National Revolution and Collaboration

Introduction

7 The National Revolution

Vichy Governments The National Revolution: Doctrine The National Revolution: Sources Conflicts I: Education Conflicts II: State and Society: The Fascist Temptation Conflicts III: The Economy

8 Collaboration

Jean Moulin: Collaborator Involuntary Collaboration/Voluntary Collaboration German Polyocracy: ‘What a lot of authorities’ Initiating Collaboration: Montoire 13 December: The Fall of Laval The British Connection Relaunching Collaboration: The Protocols of Paris After the Protocols: Collaboration goes on Economic Collaboration

9 Collaborationism

Fanatics, Criminals and Adventurers Frères-Ennemis : Doriot and Déat The Rank and File Leftist Collaborationism Circles of Influence Collaboration as Hatred and Fraternity: Je suis partout Drieu’s NRF: Literary Collaborationism Drieu: Collaborationism as Self-Hatred

10 Laval in Power 1942–1943

The Authoritarian Republic Tightening the Screw: Oberg, Sauckel, Dannecker, Röthke The Vel d’Hiv: July 1942 217 The Collaborationists Attack The North African Imbroglio Vichy 1943: Shrinking Power Towards Terror: The Milice Endgame Collaboration: The Balance Sheet

Part III Vichy, the Germans, and the French People

Introduction

11 Propaganda, Policing, and Administration

Balkanization Other Maps Selling the National Revolution: Propaganda Intermediaries Repression and Administration The Prefects: ‘Propagandists of Truth’ The Church: ‘Loyalty without Enthralment’

12 Public Opinion, Vichy, and the Germans

Public Opinion: From Disenchantment to Opposition The Pétain Cult Private Lives Responding to the Germans The Sociology of Opinion: Notables and Peasants The Sociology of Opinion: Business The Sociology of Opinion: The Workers

13 Intellectuals, Artists, and Entertainers

Reputations Culture under Vichy German Ambiguities Glittering Paris: Temptations and Sophistries Continuing France The Cinema: Ambiguities and Paradoxes

14 Reconstructing Mankind

Moral Hygiene/Social Hygiene Family Values Women, Vichy, and the Germans Remaking the Young: Aspirations and Reality Uriage: A Pétainist Deviation? ‘Pockets of Health’ (Mounier) Twentieth-Century Utopia: An Architect at Vichy Utopian Communities: An Economist at Vichy

15 Vichy and the Jews

Emulative Zeal: Vichy Anti-Semitism/Nazi Anti-Semitism The Holocaust in France Jewish Responses: French and Immigrants Jewish Resistance French Society and the Jews 1940–1942: Indifference and Hostility French Society and the Jews 1942–1944: Solidarity and Rescue

Part IV The Resistance

Introduction

16 The Free French 1940–1942

Beginnings Conflict: De Gaulle and his Allies The National Committee De Gaulle’s Ideology De Gaulle and the French

17 The Resistance 1940–1942

Personalities Glimmers in the Night Consolidation I: Movements and Networks Consolidation II: North and South Towards Ideology Other Voices I: Catholics and Socialists Other Voices II: The Communists Towards Unity

18 De Gaulle and the Resistance 1942

Moulin’s Plan The Resistance and London: First Contacts Moulin and the Resistance The Resistance: Geography and Sociology Resistance and the Population: How to Resist? Competitors

19 Power Struggles 1943

Moulin, Brossolette, and the Movements Moulin’s Victory: The CNR De Gaulle and Giraud After Caluire: The Resistance Fights Back Communist Policy Responding to the Communists Communist Infiltration?

20 Resistance in Society

Diversification and Radicalization The Disintegration of Vichy The Maquis The Peasantry and the Resistance Women in the Resistance Foreigners in the Resistance Recruiting the Professions: Communists and Writers Bringing in the Workers: National Insurrection

21 Remaking France

Vichy and the Resistance: Shared Values Pétaino-Resisters: An Abortive Third Way The New Elite Making Plans Building a Clandestine State

Part V Liberation and After

Introduction

22 Towards Liberation: January to June 1944

The Milice State: Darnand and Henriot Glières: ‘Defeat of arms, victory of souls’ Springtime of Fear April 1944: Pétain in Paris The Communists What Kind of Insurrection?

23 Liberations

Uprisings and Massacres COMAC v London Micro-Histories De Gaulle in Bayeux The Last Days of Vichy Liberation and Insurrection The Liberation of Paris Vichy-Sigmaringen: From One Spa to Another

24 A New France?

Restoring order The Purges I: Myth and Reality The Purges II: Cleansing the Community The Purges III: The Trials Intellectuals in the Dock The Liberation Betrayed?

Epilogue Remembering the Occupation

Constructing Memory Dissenting Memories I: The Resistance Dissenting Memories II: Pétainists and Collaborators Buried Memories: The Victims Fragmented Memories Memory on Trial Obsessive Memory Mitterrand’s Memories The Papon Trial The Resistance Syndrome In Search of the True France Appendix : The Camps of Vichy France Bibliographical Essay Index

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