After the Deportation - Memory Battles in Postwar France

Examines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Philip Nord is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. His publications include France 1940: Defending the Republic (2015) and France's New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era (2010).

Summary

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. Philip Nord addresses how the Deportation, and how it was remembered, became politicized against the backdrop of changing domestic and international contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Nord, Philip (Princeton University Nord, Nord Philip Nord
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108478908
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47890-8
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, c 1500 onwards to present day, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Relating to Jewish people and groups, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater