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- [Nazi regime of terror]
- The Militant, 19 May 1945. After the conquest
of France, the Nazis imposed a regime of terror on the
French people. But for the British and American banks in
France, the Nazis had only kind words and more important
kind deeds. Each proved helpful to each other.
- Review of Richard Golsan, ed., Memory,
the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier
Affairs
- By Stevn Zdatney, West Virginia University, H-France list,
January 1998. It may be that the famous Vichy Syndrome is
about to be resolved. A few years ago the President of the
Republic acknowledged the complicity of the French state in
the Holocaust. The difficulty the French have had in
settling accounts with the past.
- The French left in the Fourth
Republic
- By Serge Halimi, Le Monde diplomatique, March
1997. The Malagasy uprising, which started with the massacre
of around 100 French settlers, broke out during the night of
29 March 1947. But when the tripartite government coalition
(PC-SFIO-MRP) broke up five weeks later on 5 May 1947, it
was because of state-owned Renault and its workers, not
because of Madagascar.
- France Faces Its Demons For Algerian War
Brutality
- By Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post,
Thursday 10 May 2001. France is re-examining a painful
chapter of its own recent past, the Algerian war for
independence from 1954 to 1962. The old demons were
unleashed by the unvarnished memoirs of an aging general who
admits taking part in torture and summary executions during
France's long, losing battle to keep Algeria.
- Paris 1968: 30 years ago: When France
rebelled
- By Dermot Sreenan, A-Infos News Service, [5 May 1968]. 25
years ago France was on the verge of a total revolt with 12
million workers on strike, 122 factories occupied, and
students fighting against the old moribund system in which
they found themselves. [An anarchist, anti-communist
perspective.]
- France haunted by Rwanda genocide
- By Julian Nundy, The Telegraph, 14 April
1998. The massacre of Tutsis by Hutu forces in Rwanda in
1994 has come back to haunt France, as the people begin to
learn that their country may have had some responsibility
for the killings that the United Nations has since
officially classified as
genocide
.