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HIST 276: France Since 1871

Lecture 18 - The Dark Years: Vichy France. For decades after the end of World War II the question of French collaboration with the Nazis was obscured. One of the reasons for this was the desire of de Gaulle and others to downplay the central role of communists in resisting the occupation. In fact, many French civilians were involved to greater or lesser degrees in informing upon their fellows or otherwise furthering the interests of the German invaders. Under the Vichy regime, right-wing politics in France developed an ideological program founded upon an appeal to nationalism, the soil, and the rejection of perceived decadence. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 18 - The Dark Years: Vichy France

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. The Outbreak of War: French and German Military Capacities
[00:05:32] 2. The Fall of France
[00:09:02] 3. Collaboration: Vichy France in Power
[00:12:35] 4. Gaps in National Memory: Problems in the History of Collaboration
[00:21:16] 5. The Collaborator Trials: The Vindication of History
[00:33:20] 6. The Character of the Collaborators: Identity and Motives

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Lecture 18 - The Dark Years: Vichy France
Instructor: Professor John Merriman. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - The Paris Commune and Its Legacy
Lecture 03 - Centralized State and Republic
Lecture 04 - A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity
Lecture 05 - The Waning of Religious Authority
Lecture 06 - Workshop and Factory
Lecture 07 - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
Lecture 08 - Dynamite Club: The Anarchists
Lecture 09 - General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus
Lecture 10 - Cafes and the Culture of Drink
Lecture 11 - Paris and the Belle Epoque
Lecture 12 - French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith)
Lecture 13 - The Origins of World War I
Lecture 14 - Trench Warfare
Lecture 15 - The Home Front
Lecture 16 - The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes)
Lecture 17 - The Popular Front
Lecture 18 - The Dark Years: Vichy France
Lecture 19 - Resistance
Lecture 20 - Battles For and Against Americanization
Lecture 21 - Vietnam and Algeria
Lecture 22 - Charles De Gaulle
Lecture 23 - May 1968
Lecture 24 - Immigration