Archive for Vichy régime
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Posted in Kids with tags 16 juillet 1942, Auschwitz-Birkenau, deportation, Drancy, French police, Memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe, Shoah memorial, Vél d'Hiv, Vichy régime, war crimes on July 16, 2022 by xi'an
the elephant in the biography
Posted in Books with tags amnesty, antisemitism, Céline, collaboration, Denmark, extradition, Gallimard, Guerre, Liberation, Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, Nazis, Norway, Pétain, Sigmarinen, Vichy régime, war, WW II on July 14, 2022 by xi'anAs I was buying Guerre, the long lost novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline that was recently published, I noticed that Gallimard had included a biography of the author with a massive elephant in the room!
Namely the loud silence about his antisemitic writings and collaborationist activities under the Vichy regime, which made him flee to Sigmarinen with the core French collaborators (incl. Pétain and Laval), and then flee again to German-occupied Denmark when Allied troups were approching, where he was later jailed for two years as the Libération French government had requested Céline’s extradition from the new Norwegian goverment. He only returned to France after an amnesty was granted for his disabled war veteran status.
last stroke
Posted in Statistics with tags Briançon, COVID-19, France, Hautes Alpes, Karl Marx, Lac Laramon, lockdown, Oisans, pandemic, Paris, pool, Vallée de la Clarée, Vichy régime, Villejuif, Youri Gargarine on October 28, 2020 by xi'an
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