"Comparing German documents with newly available French sources, [the authors] conclusively demonstrate that, contrary to postwar testimony, Vichy unleashed a wave of antisemitic laws independent of German pressure. On coming to power in 1940, Vichy policy began by banning Jews …
Journal d'H. Berr, jeune juive parisienne, de 1942 à 1944. Récit quotidien d'une agrégative d'anglais contrainte de porter l'étoile jaune, déportée en mars 1944. Elle meurt d'épuisement à Bergen-Belsen, quelques semaines avant la libération des camps. Suivi d'une biographie de l…
"It is a moving portrayal of how a young woman's carefree life in Paris is slowly shattered as she becomes increasingly certain of her eventual terrible fate ... Perhaps inevitably, Berr has already been described as France's Anne Frank. But although the two young women both die…
"Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier 'de Pellepoix', Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who managed the Vichy government's dirty work, 'controlling' its Jewish population." "Born into an establ…
"Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and con men--Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and "Commissioner for Jewish Affairs" in France's Vichy government. Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, deliveri…
A renowned historian of genocide reconsiders French responses to the Nazis' attempt to exterminate France's Jewish population.
A renowned historian of genocide reconsiders French responses to the Nazis'' attempts to exterminate France's Jewish population.
