The Vichy Syndrome

History and Memory in France since 1944

Henry Rousso

Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

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PAPERBACK

$38.00 • £30.95 • €34.00

ISBN 9780674935396

Publication Date: 03/15/1994

Short

400 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

7 halftones , 7 line illustrations

World

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Foreword [Stanley Hoffmann]
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Neurosis
I. Evolution of the Syndrome
- 1. Unfinished Mourning (1944–1954)
- 2. Repressions (1954–1971)
- 3. The Broken Mirror (1971–1974)
- 4. Obsession (after 1974): Jewish Memory
- 5. Obsession (after 1974): The World of Politics
II. Transmission of the Syndrome
- 6. Vectors of Memory
- 7. Diffuse Memory
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Chronology of Events
Appendix 2. French Films and World War II
Bibliography
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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