Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France : Representing Treason and Sacrifice

This book is about how people behaved during the German occupation of France during the Second World War, and more specifically about how individuals from different social and political backgrounds recorded and reflected on their experiences during and after these tragic events. The book focuses on the concepts of treason and sacrifice, and takes the form of an introductory overview, followed by contextualized case studies in the areas of politics, daily life, civil administration, paramilitary action, literature and film. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Representations......Page 14 Moral issues......Page 24 Occupation and collaboration......Page 31 Resistance and liberation......Page 42 2 Leaders and the People......Page 55 Opinion and daily life......Page 57 Pétain and de Gaulle......Page 63 Diarists and autobiographers......Page 80 Collaboration, resistance and the dilemmas of administration......Page 92 Structures of administration......Page 103 Good and bad servants: case histories......Page 106 Rebellion and sacrifice......Page 130 Veracity and fabulation......Page 144 The trials of René Hardy......Page 153 French collaborators in German uniform......Page 161 5 Writers......Page 169 Roger Vailland and the resistance novel......Page 170 Pascal Jardin’s Vichy idyll......Page 179 René Barjavel’s utopian science fiction......Page 187 Crime and traitors: Marcel Aymé and José Giovanni......Page 195 6 Films......Page 207 Clouzot, Le Corbeau and Continental......Page 210 Le Corbeau: characters and configurations......Page 218 Resisters and collaborators: from stereotypes to revisionism......Page 224 Conclusion......Page 244 Notes......Page 251 Bibliography and Filmography......Page 268 C......Page 280 G......Page 281 M......Page 282 Z......Page 283 "This book is about how people behaved during the German occupation of France during the Second World War, and more specifically about how individuals from different social and political backgrounds recorded and reflected on their experiences during and after these tragic events. The book focuses in particular on the concepts of treason and sacrifice, as they affected the behaviour of individuals and groups and their relationship to the nation state. An introductory overview, discussing problems of representation, moral issues and the nature of collaboration and resistance, is followed by contextualised case-studies in the areas of politics, daily life, civil administration, paramilitary action, literature and film. The figures examined are chosen not only because of their representative or even iconic nature but also because most of them left a record expressing their own vision of the occupation. This is very much an interdisciplinary study, linking political, historical, moral and cultural ideas."--Jacket This book is about how people behaved during the German occupation of France during the Second World War, and more specifically about how individuals from different social and political backgrounds recorded and reflected on their experiences during and after these tragic events. The book focuses in particular on the concepts of treason and sacrifice, as they affected the behaviour of individuals and groups and their relationship to the nation state. An introductory overview, discussing problems of representation, moral issues and the nature of collaboration and resistance, is followed by contextualised case studies in the areas of politics, daily life, civil administration, paramilitary action, literature and film. The figures examined are chosen not only because of their representative or even iconic nature but also because most of them left a record expressing their own vision of the occupation. This is very much an interdisciplinary study, linking political, historical, moral and cultural ideas This book is about how people behaved during the German occupation of France during World War Two, and more specifically about how individuals from different social and political backgrounds recorded and reflected on their experiences during and after these tragic events. The book focuses on the concepts of treason and sacrifice, and takes the form of an introductory overview, followed by contextualised case studies in the areas of politics, daily life, civil administration, paramilitary action, literature and film.