| Description |
1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296) and index. |
| Contents |
War, occupation, and society -- The new order at Clermont-Ferrand: political and moral renewal and the mobilization of youth -- The new order: the Legion Francaise de Combattants and the mobilization of adults -- The new order at Clermont-Ferrand: collaborationism -- The outcasts -- Public opinion at the grass roots -- Clermont through German eyes -- Resistance and liberation. |
| Summary |
Films like The Sorrow and the Pity and Lacombe Lucien, as well as recent scholarship, have replaced the old Gaullist myth of Nazi-occupied France and "a nation of resisters" with a new myth of "a nation of collaborators." John Sweets's provocative assessment challenges both stereotypes. From evidence gathered at Clermont-Ferrand, the largest town near Vichy, the Occupation capitol, Sweets found the French far less devoted to Petain than some have argued, and far more supportive of de Gaulle than has been suspected. The New Order was emphatically rejected by most of the Fren. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Clermont-Ferrand.
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Clermont-Ferrand (France) -- History.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Auvergne.
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Auvergne (France) -- History.
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France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1940. |
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1939 - 1945 |
| Indexed Term |
France Occupation by German military forces, 1940-1944 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sweets, John F., 1945- Choices in Vichy France. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986 0195037510 (DLC) 85010579 (OCoLC)12050741 |
| ISBN |
9780199874255 (electronic book) |
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0199874255 (electronic book) |
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0195037510 |
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9780195037517 |
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