The Good Days of Collaborators Vol 3 by Henri Amouroux

The third volume of Henri Amouroux's monumental history of the French people during World War II.

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
• Collaborationist parties: Jacques Doriot (PPF), Marcel Déat (RNP) and French fascist movements
• The Legion of French Volunteers: Frenchmen on the Eastern Front against the Soviet Union
• The French Waffen SS: Military engagement alongside the Third Reich
• Anti-Semitism 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 reveals with finesse the mechanisms of French collaboration in all its forms: political, intellectual, ideological and military. Essential analysis for understanding this dark period when some French chose to serve the Third Reich, from June 21, 1941 to June 1942.

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