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Vichy France, its Origins, History and Legacy IRP, Fall 2014, Syllabus Week 1- The trauma of WWI, anti-Semitism and the rise of French fascism, reaction against the Popular Front, The Spanish Civil War, the crisis of the 1930’s. Week 2- The defeat of 1940, exodus and armistice. Occupation of France by Germany and Italy. Creation of Vichy government, Petain, the Vichy zone. Week 3- The Resistance, the communists, the underground, Moulin’s network. De Gaulle and Free France forces. The Colonies. Week 4- The Collaboration. Writers and intellectuals, French literary fascism, artists, businessmen, the police and the administration. Vichy legislation. Week 5- the victims- Vichy and the Jews, the free masons, the refugees, the resistants, civilian hostages. French anti-Semitism, Vichy Jewish laws, the camps, Drancy. Week 6- Opposition to the Vichy regime among writers and civil servants, the underground press, the righteous gentiles. French forces fighting with the Allies in North Africa, Italy and Russia. Week 7- Life under occupied France. Shortages and black market, denunciations, reprisals, war prisoners, French workers in Germany, movies and plays. Vichy propaganda, newspapers and Nazi exhibitions. Week 8- Active collaboration. The French legion on the Russian front. Doriot and the militia, tortures, atrocities. Week 9- The tide is turning. Operation Torch, German occupation of the ‘free zone”, Stalingrad, French Western Africa and French Western Indies, Allies lading in Provence. Week 10- The liberation. De Gaulle’s government. Purges and trials of Petain, Laval, Darlan, Brassilach and others. Week 11- The legacy of Vichy- Legislation, modernization of infrastructure. Labor and social laws still in effect today. Well known collaborators and the Fifth Republic. Week 12- French responsibility for the Vichy years, apologies. Resurgence of anti-Semitism and neo-fascism. .

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