Description
When Vichy France and the Jews was first published in France in 1981, the reaction was explosive. Before the appearance of this groundbreaking book, the question of the Vichy regime's cooperation with the Third Reich had been suppressed. Michael R. Marrus and Robert O. Paxton were the first to access closed archives that revealed the extent of Vichy's complicity in the Nazi effort to eliminate the Jews.
Since the book's original publication, additional archives have been opened, and the role of the French state in the deportation of Jews to the Nazi death factories is now openly acknowledged. This new edition integrates over thirty years of subsequent scholarship, and incorporates research on French public opinion and the diversity of responses by French civilians to the campaign of persecution they witnessed around them. This classic account remains central to the historiography of France and the Holocaust, and in its revised edition, is more important than ever for understanding the Vichy government's role in the darkest atrocity of the twentieth century.
Author: Michael R. Marrus, Robert O. Paxton
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 08/27/2019
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781503609815
ISBN10: 1503609812
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | France
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
- History | Jewish | General
About the Author
Michael R. Marrus is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He is the author, most recently, of Lessons of the Holocaust (2015). Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Columbia University and the author of The Anatomy of Fascism (2004), among other titles.