Petain's Crime: The Complete Story of French Collaboration in the Holocaust
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The crime of Marshal Philippe P tain, 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, P tain directed the French collaboration in the Holocaust. These facts of France's complicity have long been covered by secrecy and censorship, and P tain 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 P tain. 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 P tain's government represented the appalling culmination of a century of persecution.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1566632498
ISBN13:9781566632492
Release Date:October 1999
Publisher:Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
Related Subjects
Ethnic & National Europe France Germany History Jewish Leaders & Notable People Military World World War IICustomer Reviews
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