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Vichy: An Ever-Present Past by Eric Conan, Henry Rousso (Hardcover, 1998)

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Author:Rousso, Henry. Vichy: An Ever-Present Past (Contemporary French Culture & Society S.). The feel-good place to buy books. Year Published:1998. In 2002, World of Books was founded on an ethos to do good, protect the planet, and support charities by enabling more goods to be reused.

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Inflamed by current events and sometimes inaccurate or ambiguous news reports, French scrutiny of the Vichy regime and its involvement with Nazi policies began to intensify in the 1980s and continues unabated. Recent disclosures about the ambivalent role of French President Franc ois Mitterrand, coverage of the Paul Touvier trial, and revelations about a card file kept on French Jews have only added to the cacophony and confusion that characterize French attitudes toward the behavior of officials and public institutions during the Nazi occupation. The authors, while admitting their own role in the instigation of this reexamination - Eric Conan and Henry Rousso both have written on the subject for years - nonetheless argue that this kind of frenzied attention to the period is disproportionate with respect both to the context of French history and to that of the present international scene, which has no lack of tragedies. France's national duty to remember, the authors write, has led to a total denial of the legitimacy of the 'right to forget.'