Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Dissent
Angaben zur Quelle:
41,2 (1994) 253-260
Schlagwort(e):
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust denial
Kurzfassung:
States that for many years the French hid their trauma of the Nazi occupation, as well as tensions which arose amounting to a "civil war" between memory of the resistance and memory of the Vichy-Berlin collaboration, behind a myth of national resistance to the Nazis. Discusses the collapse of the Gaullist myth of national resistance, quoting Henry Rousso's "The Vichy Syndrome" (1991), and recalling the pardons given to René Bousquet (in 1949) and Paul Touvier (in 1972), both of whom were high Vichy officials. Discusses, also, the issue of Holocaust denial in France (spread by Robert Faurisson and others), as well as the intent at Klaus Barbie's trial to relativize the Nazi crimes. Notes the efforts of Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Alain Finkielkraut, and Deborah Lipstadt to combat historical revisionism and make sure that crimes against humanity will always be punishable.
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