RESISTANCE AND COLLABORATION:
THE FRENCH LEGACY

Links to useful sources on the web


Sites will be added to this page as the module progresses. Please check this page regularly. Students are asked to notify the module tutor of any useful web sites which they find themselves, and these can then be added to this list.

Second World War
1939-1945: La Seconde Guerre mondiale sur le web
Chronology of the war
La vie en France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Le syndrome de Vichy
The ‘Vichy Syndrome’: Coming to terms with les années noires

Uranus
Claude Berri’s Uranus (N.B. an overview of the film, not the novel)

Nuit et brouillard
Nuit et brouillard (dossier to accompany the March 2002 screening of the film on France’s Histoire TV channel)
L’Indignation, pas la haine (dossier to accompany the May 1992 screening of the film on FR3)
Faurisson falsifie l’histoire (negationism and the film)

The camps in France
Le camp de Drancy 1941-1944

Negationism
Faurisson, un falsificateur
Pas de chambres à gaz dans les camps de concentration?
Did Six Million Really Die? (Richard Harwood)
Journal of Historical Review (click through to ‘Leaflets’ for an overview of the IHR’s approach)
Les falsificateurs du passé (Le Monde diplomatique, January 1994)

Holocaust denial and the law
Blair shies away from EU law on Holocaust (The Telegraph, 3 April 2002)
What is ‘Holocaust denial’? (Institute for Historical Review)
Combating Holocaust denial (Jeremy Jones)
Combating Holocaust denial through law in the United Kingdom (Institute for Jewish Policy Research)

Le Chagrin et la pitié
Film overview
Presentation by the distributor (Milestone Films)
La vérité en face

Lacombe, Lucien
Une réflexion anticonformiste sur le passé

Philippe Pétain
Association pour défendre la mémoire du Maréchal Pétain

Coursework topics
Click here for the list of topics



Editor: Kay Chadwick
Last updated: October 2005