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By Richard J. Golsan
One of many certain beneficial properties of the "Vichy Syndrome"—the patience of the reminiscence of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life—is that it's been extremely difficult for an authoritative old discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the identify involves, fascinate or even obsess the French, inflecting not just discussions of the previous yet of the current as well?In Vichy's Afterlife, Richard J. Golsan explores the complexities of a few of the main provocative episodes of Vichy's curious endurance in France's nationwide recognition. He argues that every of those episodes, occasions, and scandals constitutes a crossroads the place background and "counterhistory"—different or competing types of the past—encounter each other, usually with explosive or even damaging outcomes.
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In Vichy: An Everpresent Past, Conan and Rousso assert that the national state of mind concerning the Dark Years is suggestive of a situation in which the victims and heroes, not to mention all the others, are still not satisfied with the place they have assumed in the nation’s past, in history. In their e√orts to rectify the situation and to inscribe their memories of the war on the nation’s history, Jewish victims of the Shoah have of course been at the forefront of e√orts to bring individuals like René Bousquet, Paul Touvier, and Maurice Papon to justice.
Bousquet goes on to claim that he o√ered to secure the participation of the Red Cross in the process, an o√er declined or ignored by his German interlocutor. But it is in negotiating the French role in the actual roundup of the Jews that, according to Bousquet, the Germans were at their worst. ’’ Faced with this ultimatum, Bousquet asserts, his hands were tied. As the historical record shows, the vast majority of Bousquet’s testimony is sheer fantasy. Despite his claims of having been a hostile and persistent opponent of the Nazis and their plans, Bousquet in fact 36 Memory and Justice Abused curried favor with them and, almost without reservation, supported Nazi intentions from the outset.
It would also have coincided with a relatively recent trend in coming to terms with the Holocaust in giving a real, human face to the perpetrators, evident in works such as Christopher Browning’s Ordinary Men, Raul Hilberg’s Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders, Judith Miller’s One, by One, by One, and Daniel Goldhagen’s spectacularly successful Hitler’s Willing Executioners. But this is perhaps putting too optimistic a spin on the trial of René Bousquet that never was. It is also possible that the trial of the former chief of police under Vichy, even more than that of his subordinate in Bordeaux, Maurice Papon, would have become bogged down in polemics about the value and meaning of such belated trials for crimes against humanity.