Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France

Download or read book Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France written by Richard H. Weisberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Weisberg provides a comprehensive account of the French legal system's complicity with its German occupiers during the dark period known as 'Vichy'. Drawing on archival sources, personal interviews, and historical research, this book reveals how legalized persecution operated on a practical level, often exceeding German expectations. All while comparing the Vichy experience to American legal precedents and practices, opening the possibility that postmodern modes of thinking ironically adopt the complexity of Vichy reasoning to a host of reading and thinking strategies.