Vichy

Does Vichy Live On? Robert O. Paxton, New York Review of Books. France's wartime Vichy regime, which collaborated with the Nazis, is often viewed as a historical aberration.  But a new book argues that Vichy shaped modern France.

The Children Britain Didn't Save Fred Barschak, Jewish Chronicle. The Kindertransport saved 10,000 from Nazi territory in the late 1930s.  But when it came to rescuing 1,800 Jewish children from Vichy France in 1942, Britain turned its back.

French and Jewish or Jewish and French? Robert Zaretsky, Forward. Jews have been a presence in provincial France since the Revolution, outlasting even Vichy and the German occupation. But now, increasing Islamic anti-Semitism is precipitating an exodus.

Admitting France’s Crimes François Hollande, New York Review of Books. “The challenge is to fight tirelessly against all forms of falsification of history: not only the insult of Holocaust denial, but also the temptation of relativism.”