Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs

265 Pages·1996·0.85 MB·English

by  Richard J. Golsan

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title: Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice : The
Bousquet and Touvier Affairs Contemporary French
Culture and Society
author: Golsan, Richard Joseph
publisher: University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin: 0874517419
print isbn13: 9780874517415
ebook isbn13: 9780585267074
language: English
subject Jews--Persecutions--France, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-
1945)--France, War crime trials--France, Bousquet,
René,--1909- , Touvier, Paul,--1915- , World War, 1939-
1945--Collaborationists--France--Biography, France--
Politics and government--20th century.
publication date: 1996
lcc: DS135.F83M46 1996eb
ddc: 944/.004924
subject: Jews--Persecutions--France, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-
1945)--France, War crime trials--France, Bousquet,
René,--1909- , Touvier, Paul,--1915- , World War, 1939-
1945--Collaborationists--France--Biography, France--
Politics and government--20th century.
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Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice

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Contemporary French Culture and Society
edited by
Richard J. Golsan,
Mary Jean Green, and
Lynn A. Higgins

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Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice
The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs
Edited by Richard J. Golsan
Translations by Lucy Golsan and Richard J. Golsan

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Dartmouth College
Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755
© 1996 by the Trustees of Dartmouth College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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CIP data appear at the end of the book

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For my son Jody
and to the memory of
Craig Woods,
scholar, athlete,
gentleman, and
good friend

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
Chronology xiii
Introduction 1
The Bousquet Affair
Vichy Did the Work of the Nazis: An Interview with Robert Paxton
Annette Lévy-Willard 53
Fifteen Years of an Interminable Affair
Annette Lévy-Willard 61
Six Questions for History
69
Bousquet's Letter (Defense Plea) to the Court, 19 August 1992
74
1. Did Bousquet Falsify History in His Defense Plea?
Denis Peschanski and Henry Rousso

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2. Did Vichy France Protect French Jews?
Robert O. Paxton
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3. Was There Massive Collaboration of Top Administrative Officials?
Denis Peschanski
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4. Was the France of 194042 Anti-Semitic?
Pierre Laborie
96
5. Why Did the High Court Acquit Bousquet?
Henry Rousso
100
6. Did the Purge Achieve Its Goals?
Henry Rousso
The Touvier Affair
Reflections on the April 1992 Appeals Court Decision
109
The Touvier Affair: History and Justice Abused
Jean-Denis Bredin
114
The Touvier Affair
Tzvetan Todorov
The Trial of Paul Touvier
125
Personalities
Annette Lévy-Willard
125
Trémolet de Villers Prefers Forgiveness to Remembrance: An Interview with
Touvier's Lawyer
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The Young Son Replaces His Father

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Proceedings
Sorj Chalandon
131
To Defend a Milicien, the Lawyer Trémolet Puts the Liberation on Trial
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My Colleague Told Me: You Must Choose Seven Jews
138
Louis Goudard, the Troublesome Survivor
142
"Monsieur Berthet": In Hiding among the Clergy
146
Rillieux Was Carried out on Orders from the Germans
149
It Was an Ideological, Premeditated, and Diabolical Crime
152
The Prosecuting Attorney Demands a Life Sentence
155
Reflections
Henry Rousso
155
Klaus Barbie and Paul Touvier
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Collaborators, Those "Patriotic Traitors"
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The Stakes in the Summer of 1944
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Reconciliation and Rehabilitation
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What Historians Will Retain from the Last Trial of the Purge
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