Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust - French Railwaymen and the Second World War

A major new study on the role of French railwaymen in resistance and genocide during the Second World War.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Cheminots; 2. Vichy; 3. Bahnofs; 4. Theft; 5. Protest; 6. Sabotage; 7. Shoah; 8. Liberation; Epilogue: memory; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Ludivine Broch (University of Westminster) has published articles on French railwaymen in the Holocaust in Contemporary European History (2014) and Diasporas (2015), and chapters on railway history and memory. This is her first monograph. She is the co-editor of France in an Era of Global Wars, 1914–1945: Occupation, Politics, Empire and Entanglements (2014). Broch co-convenes the French History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London and manages the French History Network blog affiliated to the Society for the Study of French History.

Summary

Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? In this major new study of the complicity of the SNCF in the Holocaust, Ludivine Broch re-examines the complexities of resistance and collaboration, working-class identity and everyday life under Vichy.

Product details

• Authors: Ludivine Broch
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108705745
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70574-5
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; France, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), War and defence operations, War & defence operations, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater