A first observation: among the personalities of the Vichy regime (Bousquet, Darlan) and collaboration shameless 3rd Reich (Doriot), many will come from the left and who campaigned prewar within the LICA ( future LICRA), or at least expressed loudly against lantisémitisme lentre ... In the wars, although this is the ultra pacifist left that will continue to demand unilateral disarmament of France taking care not to salarmer the massive rearmament of Germany Cest well the House predominantly socialist and radical socialist deputies who gives the constituent powers to Pétain 10 July 1940. Why so many Dreyfusards and danciens philosemites they gravitate around Vichy? Pétain attraction probably Who organizes anti-Jewish raids in 1942 at the request of Laval nest if René Bousquet, radical socialist who sétait already responsible for the repression of nationalist factious leagues in 1936 under the orders of Salengro, Minister of the Interior of popular front
A lopposé, trajectories are equally disconcerting: the 1936 factious (La Rocque), activists and supporters of the action French (Daniel Cordier), denying Maurras at the time of submitting it to Petain, decide dentrer resistance soon the beginning, when few meet the call ... Later still, the trend is confirmed, "in relation to the non-Communist resistance, the weight of originating extreme right is considerable" (Epstein). One of the first clandestine networks, Alliance, founded by Loustaunau-Lacau (right politician dextrême) will claim 3,000 members, among them 300 were shot, hundreds were deported and did not return. These men and women from these nationalists thrive where anti-Jewish prejudice, become resistant and rub shoulders with those that they faced before the war. Some of them will cease BE Semitic, many will remain
However, this book does not just BE umpteenth whos who of resistant and collaborators. Indeed, beyond the singular routes leading to resistance and mass conversions to collaborationism, Simon Epstein demonstrates lextraordinaire imposture of historiography, still in force today, which sévertue to revisit the past to laune good old ideological determinism. Up labsurde "say that collaboration is rooted in fascism of the 30s means that France would have secreted a fascist enslavement dauto putting a point of honor to meet the requirements of the enemy. French fascism was the only one to advocate fascism history leffacement national and collective submission. "(Epstein)
Simon Epstein, the alert pen and irony vacharde samuse usual contortions of these historians and researchers, stuck between the disastrous revelations about the past of each other and their teaching vocations. How falsify by omission the past of a zealous servant of Vichy, when he became President of the Republic wants to use the National Front obscure how these swathes of the parliamentary left and civil society wallowing in collaboration quimporte apologist historian laffirme: wasnt really left the left so short, we must save the "ideological coherence and pathos of the narrative antifascist 1936".
A limmédiate image of post-war, the one that granted amnesty Vichyists (Bousquet) and imprison resistant (Loustaunau-Lacau).
