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The French who fought for Hitler : memories from the outcasts / Philippe Carrard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carrard, Philippe, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme--Biography.
- Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme.
- Waffen-SS. Französische SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade--Biography.
- Waffen-SS.
- Waffen-SS. Waffen-Grenadier-Division "Charlemagne," 33--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, French.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--France.
- Soldiers--France--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Soldiers--Germany--Biography.
- Outcasts--France--Biography.
- Outcasts.
- Collective memory--France.
- Collective memory.
- World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Thousands of Frenchmen volunteered to provide military help to the Nazis during World War II, fighting in such places as Belorussia, Galicia, Pomerania, and Berlin. Utilizing these soldiers' memoirs, The French Who Fought for Hitler examines how these volunteers describe their exploits on the battlefield, their relations to civilian populations in occupied territories, and their sexual prowess. It also discusses how the volunteers account for their controversial decisions to enlist, to fight to the end, and finally to testify. Coining the concepts of 'outcast memory' and 'unlikeable vanquished', Philippe Carrard characterizes the type of bitter, unrepentant memory at work in the volunteers' recollections and situates it on the map of France's collective memory. In the process, he contributes to the ongoing conversation about memory, asking whether all testimonies are fit to be given and preserved, and how we should deal with life narratives that uphold positions now viewed as unacceptable.
- Contents:
- Backgrounds
- From the Légion des volontaires français to the Division Charlemagne
- The historians' take
- Authenticity
- Verifications and guarantees
- The Sajer case
- Internet debates
- Veracity
- The French in Berlin
- Possibly too much
- As good in bed as on the battlefield
- Possibly too little
- Textualization
- Total recall
- Perspectives
- Frameworks
- The enemy demonized
- Frenchness
- The lens of culture
- Bearing witness
- Enlisting
- Fighting to the end
- Speaking up
- From the outcasts' point of view
- Vanquished
- Rejected
- Unrepentant
- Appendix A: Biographical notices
- Appendix B: Maps.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-20544-1
- 1-139-03592-4
- 1-283-05201-6
- 9786613052018
- 1-139-04138-X
- 1-139-04215-7
- 1-139-04478-8
- 1-139-03824-9
- 0-511-76260-7
- 1-139-04061-8
- OCLC:
- 710974856
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