The diplomacy of Vichy: June 1940 to November 1942

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

05/17/2009

Category :

History & geography

Sub category :

Modern history

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Summary :

Introduction
New policy implemented by Laval in 1940
The French position towards the Germans
Desire to fight against the Germans
The defeat of France
The relations between London and Vichy
Modernization of the French Naval Army
Plan to take advantage of French by Germany
Relations between France and Great Britain
The British attitude towards Vichy
Conclusion
Bibliography

Abstract

The history of vichy has been subjected to heated controversies since 1945. In the years that followed the liberation, most historians and politicians alleged that France had resisted to the German, and developed a myth, the "Resistantialisme". This term implies that the majority of the French population considered the Germans as enemies, and that they were in favour of the victory of the Allied. For instance, Vercors became a prominent writer with his novel, Le silence de la Mer, which tells the history of a French girl who refuses to talk to a German officer. Nevertheless, in the seventies, the myth of Resistantialisme foundered with the Publication of Paxton's book, vichy France, which demonstrates that the French government had collaborated with the Germans. The majority of historians who has studied vichy's regim focus on the most obvious aspects of collaboration: an administrative school to provide the administration with high civil servants, the propaganda made by vichy and his will to create a society based on traditional values (with the famous slogan: Travail, Famille, Patrie).