Historical Dictionary of World War II France: The Occupation, Vichy, and the Resistance, 1938-1946

463 Pages·1998·2.906 MB·English

by  Bertram M. Gordon

Historical Dictionary of
World War II France
Historical Dictionariesof FrenchHistory
HistoricalDictionaryof the FrenchRevolution, 1789–1799
Samuel F. Scott and Barry Rothaus, editors
HistoricalDictionaryof NapoleonicFrance,1799–1815
Owen Connelly, editor
HistoricalDictionaryof Francefrom the 1815 Restorationto the Second Empire
Edgar Leon Newman, editor
HistoricalDictionaryof the FrenchSecond Empire,1852–1870
William E. Echard, editor
HistoricalDictionaryof the Third FrenchRepublic, 1870–1940
Patrick H. Hutton, editor-in-chief
HistoricalDictionaryof the FrenchFourth and Fifth Republics, 1946–1991
Wayne Northcutt, editor-in-chief
Historical Dictionary of
World War II France
The Occupation, Vichy, and
the Resistance, 1938–1946
Edited by
BERTRAM M. GORDON
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HistoricaldictionaryofWorldWarIIFrance : theOccupation,Vichy,
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Contents
Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Abbreviations xxv
Maps xxvii
The Dictionary 1
Chronology 375
General Bibliography 383
Index 399

Contributors
Alya Aglan, Institut d’E´tudes Politiques, Paris
E´ric Amyot, McGill University, Montreal
Claire Andrieu, Institut d’E´tudes Politiques and Universite´ de Paris I
David R. Applebaum, Rowan University, New Jersey
Seth D. Armus, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Philip C.F. Bankwitz, Trinity College, Connecticut
Diane de Bellescize, Universite´ deDroitd’E´conomieetdeSciencesSocialesde
Paris—IFP, Paris
Michael L. Berkvam, Indiana University
Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit, Universite´ Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux,France
Konrad Bieber, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Cynthia S. Bisson, Belmont University, Tennessee
Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut at Stamford
Isabel Boussard, Centre d’E´tude de la Vie Politique Franc¸aise, Fondation Na-
tionale des Sciences Politiques, Paris
Nathan Bracher, Texas A&M University
Deborah D. Buffton, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Michael Jabara Carley, Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, Ottawa
Stephen K. Chenault, University of Arkansas
Patrick John Michael Coggins, University of Saskatchewan
Asher Cohen, Strochlitz Institute of Holocaust Studies, University of Haifa, Is-
rael
Oscar L. Cole-Arnal, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, Waterloo, Ontario
Miche`le C. Cone, New York City
Martyn Cornick, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Richard F. Crane, Greensboro College, North Carolina
Venita Datta, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Laurent Ditmann, Spelman College
Nicole Dombrowski, Princeton University
M. Patricia Dougherty, Dominican College of San Rafael, California
x CONTRIBUTORS
Laurent Douzou, Universite´ Lyon II, France
Donna Evleth, Paris
Carole Fink, The Ohio State University
Sarah Fishman, University of Houston
Willard Allen Fletcher, University of Delaware
Hilary Footitt, University of Westminster, London
Wolfgang Freund, University of the Saarland, Germany
Julius W. Friend, George Washington University
James Friguglietti, Montana State University-Billings
Norman J.W. Goda, Ohio University
Milton Goldin, Tarrytown, New York
Richard J. Golsan, Texas A&M University
Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College, California
Claire Gorrara, School of European Studies, University of Wales College of
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Irene V. Guenther, University of Houston and Houston Community College
Martine Guyot-Bender, Hamilton College, New York
W. Scott Haine, Holy Names College, California
W.D. Halls, University of Oxford
Martha Hanna, University of Colorado
C. James Haug, Mississippi State University
Melanie Hawthorne, Texas A&M University
John Hellman, McGill University, Montreal
Lynn A. Higgins, Dartmouth College
Roland L. Higgins, Keene State College
Stanley Hoffmann, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
William A. Hoisington, Jr., University of Illinois at Chicago
H. Haywood Hunt, Shukutoku University, Mizuhodai Campus, Japan
Paul F. Jankowski, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
Eric T. Jennings, University of Toronto
Nicole T. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Steven Kale, Washington State University
Bernd Kasten, Schwerin, Germany
Claire Keith, Marist College, New York
Michael Kelly, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Van Kelly, University of Kansas
William R. Keylor, Boston University
Megan Koreman, Texas Tech University
Kenneth Krauss, College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York
Michel Lacroix, McGill University, Montreal
Christophe Lamiot, Rutgers University
Fred H. Lawson, Mills College, California
Charles Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Mesnil-Guillaume, France
Ge´rard Le Marec, Meudon-la-Foreˆt, France