I’ve been thinking of teaching a new course on Vichy. Grim. But France did rebuild a democracy out of the ashes. An imperfect one, of course. But still broadly speaking democratic.
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That's one of the reasons I like studying it. We would be so lucky to replicate their trajectory.
jul 25, 2025, 4:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Rebuilding involved mostly burying responsibility for a very long time. And blaming the Germans was a useful cover (not that Nazis weren’t a big part of what happened but France also aided and abetted, and in some cases exceeded Nazi demands).
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