The Good Old Days of the Collaborators - Book 3 by Henri Amouroux

The Fine Days of the Collaborators is the third volume of the monumental series The Great History of the French under the Occupation by Henri Amouroux.

June 1941 - June 1942: The Height of Collaboration

This essential work explores:

• The Montoire Meeting: The Pétain-Hitler encounter and state collaboration
• Pierre Laval and Political Collaboration: The return to power and the intensification of collaboration
• The Collaborationist Parties: Jacques Doriot (PPF), Marcel Déat (RNP) and the French fascist movements
• The Legion of French Volunteers: The French on the Eastern front against the Soviet Union
• The French Waffen SS: Military engagement alongside the Third Reich
• Antisemitism and Anti-Bolshevism: The ideologies of collaboration
• Anglophobia: Anti-British propaganda after Mers el-Kébir
• The Gestapo in France: German repression and police collaboration

Henri Amouroux finely reveals the mechanisms of French collaboration in all its forms: political, intellectual, ideological, and military. An essential analysis to understand this dark period when some French chose to serve the Third Reich, from June 21, 1941 to June 1942.

📚 Other volumes in the series:

• Book 1: The People of Disaster - Phoney War and collapse 1939-1940
• Book 2: 40 million Pétain supporters - France under Vichy 1940-1941
• Book 4: The Awakened People - French Resistance 1943
• Book 5: Passions and Hatreds - Divided France 1942
• Book 6: The Ruthless Civil War - 1943-1944
• Book 7: A Spring of Death and Hope - Landing 1944
• Book 8: Joys and Sorrows of the Freed People - Liberation 1944
• Book 9: Settling Scores - Purge 1944-1945
• Book 10: The Page Not Yet Turned - Post-war 1945
• Books 11 & 12: To Put an End to Vichy - Trials and memory

📖 Also discover other works by Henri Amouroux:

• Pétain before Vichy - The marshal of Verdun
• June 18, 1940 - The call of General de Gaulle
• The Life of the French under the Occupation

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