Lecture by Annie Lacroix Rice in Lille in October 2008: From Munich to Vichy.
We all learned that the collaboration during the Second World War was the consequence of the terrible defeat of France against Nazi Germany in 1940 ... What is it really?
But if the defeat was itself the result of "collaboration" is already well anticipated from a fraction the state apparatus and media influences French, and already almost Nazi occupiers? The question is taboo.
Moreover, how can we imagine that our leaders as Hamelin, these bitter enemies of democracy with the hirelings merged Berlin and Rome have been so effectively, and in standards of confidentiality, make a sufficient the top staff of the Third Republic accomplices of its destruction? How?
We first had to reopen the case, well-sealed what was left of illusions, and return to the archives. The facts are overwhelming.
Annie Lacroix-Riz thousand pieces brought together to support an unmistakable corporate subversion of the republican state. He then had to reconstruct the paths of corruption and collusion that eventually place the center of gravity of the betrayal at the heart of the state. If it is a myth untenable is that of a plot to the fringes, on the other side of a Maginot Line of security that would light up Republican invasion: in reality, a whole chain of complicity, of the extreme right reassuring to radicals, through the General Staff, wanted the death of the plan.
At any price. But why? Difficult to understand without a return on the issues of the day. As we see more good reasons for the crime, we are tempted to think that he has not taken place. But the reasons were there, and the author reminds us with cold rigor. Some perhaps do not completely disappeared: the old malaise of a share of our elites with dual makes Democratic National ...
Annie Lacroix-Riz, a former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure, an associate history, is professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris 7 expression:
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