Free Download Wolfgang Seibel, "Persecution and Rescue: The Politics of the "Final Solution" in France, 1940-1944"
English | ISBN: 0472118609 | 2016 | 440 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
In 1942, two years after invading France, the Germans implemented their policy of exterminating the Jews. In contrast to Jews in many parts of German-occupied Europe, however, the majority of Jews in France survived, thanks to opposition to the Nazi extermination policy from Church dignitaries and the moral indignation of the average Frenchmen. Seeking to maintain popular support, the Vichy Regime bargained with the Germans over the substance and extent of its collaboration, which the Germans needed in order to hold France.
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