France in the Era of Fascism
France''s response to the rise of European fascism during the 1930s, and subsequently to the Nazi occupation 1940-44, has been a difficult subject for the nation’s historians. The consensus amongst leading French authorities on the period has been the claim that France was largely ''immune'' to fascism in the 1930s, and that the Vichy regime was an aberration produced by defeat and occupation. Ove...
France''s response to the rise of European fascism during the 1930s, and subsequently to the Nazi occupation 1940-44, has been a difficult subject for the nation’s historians. The consensus amongst leading French authorities on the period has been the claim that France was largely ''immune'' to fascism in the 1930s, and that the Vichy regime was an aberration produced by defeat and occupation. Ove...