Название: The Extreme Right in the French Resistance: Members of the Cagoule and Corvignolles in the Second World War
Автор: Valerie Deacon
Издательство: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807163627
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 241
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 13,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
In the aftermath of World War II, historical accounts and public commentaries enshrined the French Resistance as an apolitical, unified movement committed to upholding human rights, equality, and republican values during the dark period of German occupation. Valerie Deacon complicates that conventional view by uncovering extreme-right participants in the Resistance, specifically those who engaged in conspiratorial, anti-republican, and quasi-fascist activities in the 1930s, but later devoted themselves to freeing the country from Nazi control.
The political campaigns of the 1930s—against communism, republicanism, freemasonry, and the government—taught France’s ultra-right-wing groups to organize underground movements. When France fell to the Germans in 1940, many activists unabashedly cited previous participation in groups of the extreme right as their motive for joining the Resistance.