Petain's Crime: The Full Story of French Collaboration in the Holocaust

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These facts of France's complicity have long been covered by secrecy and censorship, and Petain has been seen as a benign and humane leader. Mr Webster sets the record straight, detailing concentration camps in France set up even before the war began; systematic persecution of Jews under a purely French government; the leading role of French police in mass roundups ordered by Petain. The Marshal was personally involved from the first anti-Semitic legislation of July 1940 up to the deportation of the last trainload of French Jews to the death camps in August 1944. As Mr Webster shows, ideological anti-Semitism had been part of the French political and philosophical tradition for many years before the fall of France. This disturbing book, a controversial best-seller in Paris, reveals that Petain's government represented the appalling culmination of a century of persecution.
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AuthorWebster, Paul
PublisherPan Books
PlaceLondon
Year2001
ISBN033048785
BindingPaperback
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