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Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France (Hardcover)
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Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France (Hardcover)
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The involvement of Vichy France with Nazi Germany's anti-Jewish
policy has long been a source of debate and contention. At a time
when France, after decades of denial, has finally acknowledged
responsibility for its role in the deportation and murder of 75,000
Jews from France during the Holocaust, Richard H. Weisberg here
provides us with a comprehensive and devastating account of the
French legal system's complicity with its German occupiers during
the dark period known as 'Vichy'.
As in Germany, the exclusionary laws passed during the Vichy period
normalized institutional antisemitism. Anti-Jewish laws entered the
legal canon with little resistance, and private lawyers quickly
absorbed the discourse of exclusion into the conventional legal
framework, expanding the laws beyond their simple intentions, their
literal sense, and even their German precedents.
Drawing on newly-available archival sources, personal interviews,
and historical research, Weisberg reveals how legalized persecution
actually operated on a practical level, often exceeding German
expectations. Further, he presents a persuasive argument for Vichy
law as an acquired Catholic response to a flase notion of Jewish
Talmudism. The book also compares Vichy experience to American
legal precedents and practices and opens up the possibility that
postmodern modes of thinking ironically adopt the complexity of
Vichy reasoning to a host of reading and thinking strategies.
Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France raises fundamental and
disturbing questions about the ease with which democratic legal
systems can be subverted.
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