After the Deportation: Memory Battles in Postwar France (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)
Cambridge University Press, 12/3/2020
EAN 9781108478908, ISBN10: 1108478905
Hardcover, 480 pages, 23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
A total of 160,000 people, a mix of résistants and Jews, were deported from France to camps in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War. In this compelling new study, Philip Nord addresses how the Deportation, as it came to be known, was remembered after the war and how Deportation memory from the very outset, became politicized against the backdrop of changing domestic and international contexts. He shows how the Deportation generated competing narratives – Jewish, Catholic, Communist, and Gaullist – and analyzes the stories told by and about deportees after the war and how these stories were given form in literature, art, film, monuments, and ceremonials.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Heroes and Martyrs
1. Le Parti des Déportés
2. The Concentrationary Universe
3. Monster with One Eye Open
4. The Triumph of the Spirit
5. The Six Million
6. The Thirty Years' War
Part II. Shoah
7. Holocaust
8. The Teaching of Contempt
9. Witnesses
10. Generation
11. 'The Return of the Repressed'
12. Shoah
Epilogue and Conclusion.