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• Vichy France Old Guard and New Order 1940 1944
• Robert O. Paxton
• English
• 19 July 2018
• 9780231124690

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Download Vichy France Old Guard and New Order 1940 1944 Robert O. Paxton ☆ 5 Read Summary ↠ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free ☆ Robert O. Paxton Y leaders actively pursued their own double agenda internally the authoritarian and racist national revolution and externally an attempt to persuade Hitler to accept this new France as a partner in his new Europe.

Download Vichy France Old Guard and New Order 1940 1944 Robert O. Paxton ☆ 5 Read Summary ↠ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free ☆ Robert O. Paxton The Vichy period in France With a new introduction and updated bibliography Vichy France demonstrates that the collaborationist government of Marshal Pétain did far than merely react to German pressures The Vich. I have had a longstanding interest in how people rationalize their wrongdoing Paxton s history of Vichy addresses this problem on a grand scale No other choice better than the alternative to preserve something to salvage something and so on It is hard to think about Vichy after the fact and not become judgmental but Paxton does a wonderful job of putting the reader into the situation and gets as close as i can imagine to allowing the reader to see things as they saw them In the end I felt that what P tain wanted an anti semitic patriarchal authoritarian state was itself so bad that i had no sympathy for his rationalizing his pact with Hitler and no sympathy for the leaders of Vichy in the post war period Of course that would have been an easy judgment to make without reading Paxton The importance of reading Paxton was that it allowed me to feel that I had been there and had abundant reasons for my

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Download Vichy France Old Guard and New Order 1940 1944 Robert O. Paxton ☆ 5 Read Summary ↠ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free ☆ Robert O. Paxton Robert O Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of. I got this book because after years of liking the movie Casablanca and knowing very little except that it was a temporary government permitted by the Germans I wanted to know something about VichyI was hoping for a book that might explain a why the Germans allowedcreated this entity b how it operated and c how did it affect the lives of people in France and French territories during it s existenceWhile not specifically recommended by a co worker who has a PhD in WWII history he thought it might be a goodIt s definitely not the book I was hoping for But having said that it is an exhaustive and exhausting history of the politicians and laws of Vichy France For a historian it may be just what they hoped for but not me It was one of the driest and most unappealing books that I have read in the past decadeBut I did read it all Always hoping that it would deliver what I wanted And in a strange way it did