Vichy France

by Waltz, Kenneth N.

• ISBN13: 9780231124690
• ISBN10: 0231124694
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

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 the Vichy period in France. With a new introduction and updated bibliography, Vichy France demonstrates that the collaborationist government of Marshal Pétain did far more than merely react to German pressures. The Vichy 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 2001 Edition	ix
Introduction to the Morningside Edition (1982)	xxxv
Acknowledgments	xli
Prologue: Summer 1940	3	(48)
The French Quest for Collaboration, 1940--1942	51	(85)
Pierre Laval and the Paris Connection	63	(6)
The ``New Policy,'' September-December 1940	69	(23)
The Meaning of December 13	92	(9)
The Cold Shoulder: Flandin and Darlan	101	(8)
Darlan's Grand Design	109	(22)
Darlan's Fall and Laval's Return: April 1942	131	(5)
The National Revolution	136	(98)
Competing Visions	139	(7)
An Answer to Decadence	146	(2)
Moral Order: The Church	148	(5)
Moral Order: Education and the Young	153	(12)
Moral Order: The Family	165	(3)
France for the French	168	(17)
The State: Liberty and Authority	185	(15)
Return to the Soil	200	(10)
Escape from Class and Competition: Corporatism in Power	210	(11)
From Persuasion to Constraint: The Emerging Police State	221	(7)
The National Revolution and Fascism	228	(6)
The Collaborators	234	(46)
Ins, Outs, and Notables	241	(2)
The French Civil War: 1934--37	243	(6)
The Revenge of the Minorities	249	(10)
Experts	259	(9)
Traditionalists	268	(5)
The Left at Vichy	273	(7)
Collaboration---1942--44: Between Liberation and Revolution	280	(50)
Threats to the Social Order---1: Resistance	291	(8)
Threats to the Social Order---2: Second Front	299	(10)
Last French Bids for Collaboration: 1942--43	309	(17)
1944: The Dream of Peaceful Transition, the Nightmare of Civil War	326	(4)
A Balance Sheet: The Legacy of Vichy	330	(57)
Breaks and Continuities	330	(22)
Vichy and French Society	352	(5)
Was Vichy a Lesser Evil?	357	(17)
Profits and Losses	374	(6)
A Moral Balance Sheet	380	(7)
Appendix A: The War Question of January 1942	387	(4)
Appendix B: Glossary of French and German Abbreviations	391	(1)
Bibliographical Note	392	(25)
Index	417