Golsan The Papon Affair

Memory and Justice on Trial
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-74970-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Richard Golsan has brought together the crucial French journalistic pieces on the trial along with several essays by leading American and British scholars to help contextualize the trial for an English-speaking audience. The book delves deeply into the fascinating debates about the nature of French complicity in the Final Solution and of memory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Golsan, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents:The Papon Affair

Preface

Part I-The Papon Affair:Historical, Legan and Psychoanalytic PerspectivesMaurice Papon's REconversion and Itinerary after World War II: A Perfect's Road through Algeria to Paris (August 1944-October 1961)by Van Kelly

Extreme Right Wing Perspectives on Papon and Tourvier Trialsby Christopher G. Flood

The Papon Trial in an 'Era of Testimony'by Nancy Wood

The Trial of Papon anf the Tribulation of Gaullismby Nathan Bracher

The Legal Legacy of Maurice Paponby Leila Nadya Sadat

Part II-Papon's Trial for Crimes Against Humanity and the Press An interview with Maurice Papon and Analysisby Annette Levy-Willard

Vichy on Trialby Robert O. Paxton

Today, Everything Converges on the Haunting Memory of Vichy: An Interview with Pierre Noraby Nicholas Weill and Robert Sole

Those Who Organized the Trains Knew there would be Deaths: An Interview with Robert O. Paxtonby Annette Levy-Willard and Beatrice Vallaeys

Maurice Papon was not Aloneby Zeev Sternhell

The Papon Investigation Brings to Light the True Role of France in Nazi Europe: An Interview with Philippe Burrinby Thomas Ferenczi

Papon: Too Lateby Henry Rousso

Nazism, Vichy, and the Papon Trial seen by a German Historial: An Interview with Eberhard Jackelby Lucas Delattre

Maurice Papon and Crime Pathologyby Michel Dubec

Are We All Guiltyby Francois Maspero

Letter from Paris: The Papon Trialby Tzevetam Todorov

Part III-The "Other" Papon Trial: 17 October 1961According to the Mandelkern REport Thirty Two Were Killed during the Night of 17 October 1961by Philippe Bernard

October 1961: For the Truth, at Lastby Jean-Luc Einaudi

One of the Few Times since the Nineteenth Century that Police Have Fired on Workers in Paris: An Interview with Benjamin Storaby Philippe Bernard

Maurice Papon Delcares the Bloody Crackdown of 17 October 1961 'An Unfortuante Evening'by Acacio Pereira

The Magistrate's Court of Paris Acknowledges the "Extreme Violence" of the Polcie Crackdown of 17 October 1961by Philippe Bernard

Bibliography

Appendix: Chronology

Über Autor(innen)

Richard J. Golsan is Professor of French at Texas A&M University. He is the Editor of South Central Review and is the author of René Girard and Myth: An Introduction (1993) and Service Inutile: A Study of the Tragic in the Theatre of Henry De Montherland (1988). Among his edited volumes are Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs (1996) and Gender and Fascism in Modern France (1997).