Chapter 10: “The Second World War: Collaboration and Resistance.”
Read this chapter, paying special attention to the following themes:
- Terms of the armistice between France and Germany (166-167).
- Political thinking of Pétain and Laval.
- Traditionalist ideas of Pétain (169).
- The main characteristics of Vichy’s government. The new motto. Racism and anti-communism.
- The role of De Gaulle in the organization of the resistance.
- Systematic deportation of Jews (176-179).
- Vichy’s government as one of the French taboos (180-182).