Richard Golsan (ed.)

The Papon Affair

Memory and Justice on Trial
Herausgeber: Golsan, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

The Papon Affair is the definitive English-language work on a trial that is now considered to be the most significant in late twentieth-century France. Papon, who served as a Vichy bureaucrat, was charged with assisting in the deportation of several trainloads of Jews from the Bordeaux region to Nazi death camps between 1942 and 1944. After the War, his career included both a stint as Prefect of Paris Police and as a cabinet finance minister. The inconclusiveness of the verdict which, even after six months of testimony, left unresolved not only important legal and historical issues, but political, philosophical and moral issues as well. Richard Golsan has brought together the crucial French journalistic pieces on the trial along with several essays by leading American and British scholars to help contextualize the trial for an English-speaking audience. The book delves deeply into the fascinating debates about the nature of French complicity in the Final Solution and of memory itself.

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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780415923651
• ISBN-10: 0415923654
• Artikelnr.: 22371954

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Golsan is Professor of French at Texas A&M University. He is the Editor of South Central Review and is the author of René Girard and Myth: An Introduction (1993) and Service Inutile: A Study of the Tragic in the Theatre of Henry De Montherland (1988). Among his edited volumes are Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice:The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs (1996) and Gender andFascism in Modern France (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents: The Papon Affair Preface Part I-The Papon
Affair:Historical, Legan and Psychoanalytic Perspectives Maurice Papon's
REconversion and Itinerary after World War II: A Perfect's Road through
Algeria to Paris (August 1944-October 1961)by Van Kelly Extreme Right Wing
Perspectives on Papon and Tourvier Trialsby Christopher G. Flood The Papon
Trial in an 'Era of Testimony'by Nancy Wood The Trial of Papon anf the
Tribulation of Gaullismby Nathan Bracher The Legal Legacy of Maurice
Paponby Leila Nadya Sadat Part II-Papon's Trial for Crimes Against Humanity
and the Press An interview with Maurice Papon and Analysisby Annette
Levy-Willard Vichy on Trialby Robert O. Paxton Today, Everything Converges
on the Haunting Memory of Vichy: An Interview with Pierre Noraby Nicholas
Weill and Robert Sole Those Who Organized the Trains Knew there would be
Deaths: An Interview with Robert O. Paxtonby Annette Levy-Willard and
Beatrice Vallaeys Maurice Papon was not Aloneby Zeev Sternhell The Papon
Investigation Brings to Light the True Role of France in Nazi Europe: An
Interview with Philippe Burrinby Thomas Ferenczi Papon: Too Lateby Henry
Rousso Nazism, Vichy, and the Papon Trial seen by a German Historial: An
Interview with Eberhard Jackelby Lucas Delattre Maurice Papon and Crime
Pathologyby Michel Dubec Are We All Guiltyby Francois Maspero Letter from
Paris: The Papon Trialby Tzevetam Todorov Part III-The Other Papon Trial:
17 October 1961 According to the Mandelkern REport Thirty Two Were Killed
during the Night of 17 October 1961by Philippe Bernard October 1961: For
the Truth, at Lastby Jean-Luc Einaudi One of the Few Times since the
Nineteenth Century that Police Have Fired on Workers in Paris: An Interview
with Benjamin Storaby Philippe Bernard Maurice Papon Delcares the Bloody
Crackdown of 17 October 1961 'An Unfortuante Evening'by Acacio Pereira The
Magistrate's Court of Paris Acknowledges the Extreme Violence of the Polcie
Crackdown of 17 October 1961by Philippe Bernard Bibliography Appendix:
Chronology