40 Million Pétainists - Book 2 by Henri Amouroux

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The second volume of Henri Amouroux's monumental history of the French during the Second World War.

June 1940 - June 1941: The myth of the savior marshal

This essential work explores:

• The armistice of June 22, 1940 : The French defeat and the signing at Rethondes
• The cult of Marshal Pétain : How 40 million French people acclaimed the victor of Verdun
• The establishment of the Vichy regime : The National Revolution and the French State
• Pierre Laval and collaboration : The beginnings of the policy of collaboration with Germany
• Daily life under the Occupation : Rationing, tickets, the black market, and resourcefulness
• The first anti-Semitic measures : The Statute on Jews of October 1940
• The Free Zone and the Occupied Zone : A France Divided in Two
• The beginnings of the Resistance : The first acts of refusal and disobedience

Henri Amouroux astutely reveals how almost all French people, traumatized by defeat, initially placed their hopes in Marshal Pétain. This analysis is essential for understanding this period, in which the myth of the savior obscured the realities of collaboration and the Occupation.

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