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The Politics of Apoliticism - Political Trials in Vichy France, 1940-1942 (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Apoliticism - Political Trials in Vichy France, 1940-1942 (Hardcover)
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In 1942, the dictatorial regime of occupied France held a show
trial that didn't work. In a society from which democratic checks
and balances had been eliminated, under a regime that made its own
laws to try its opponents, the government's signature legal
initiative - a court packed with sympathetic magistrates and
soldiers whose investigation of the defunct republic's leaders was
supposed to demonstrate the superiority of the new regime - somehow
not only failed to result in a conviction, but, in spite of the
fact that only government-selected journalists were allowed to
attend, turned into a podium for the regime's most bitter
opponents. The public relations disaster was so great that the
government was ultimately forced to cancel the trial. This
catastrophic would-be show trial was not forced upon the regime by
Germans unfamiliar with the state of domestic opinion; rather, it
was a home-grown initiative whose results disgusted not only the
French, but also the occupiers. This book offers a new explanation
for the failure of the Riom Trial: that it was the result of ideas
about the law that were deeply imbedded in the culture of the
regime's supporters. They genuinely believed that their opponents
had been playing politics with the nation's interests, whereas
their own concerns were apolitical. The ultimate lesson of the Riom
Trial is that the abnegation of politics can produce results almost
as bad as a deliberate commitment to stamping out the beliefs of
others. Today, politicians on both sides of the political spectrum
denounce excessive polarization as the cause of political gridlock;
but this may simply be what real democracy looks like when it seeks
to express the wishes of a divided people.
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