France on Trial : : The Case of Marshal Pétain / / / Julian Jackson.
For three weeks in July 1945 all eyes were fixed on a humid Paris, where France's disgraced former head of state was on trial, accused of masterminding a plot to overthrow democracy. Would Philippe Pétain, hero of Verdun, be condemned as the traitor of Vichy?In the terrible month of October 194...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Map: Pétain's last journeys
- Acknowledgements
- Dramatis Personae
- Introduction: The Fateful Handshake
- Part One Before the Trial
- 1 The Last Days of Vichy
- 2 A Castle in Germany
- 3 Paris after Liberation
- 4 Pétain's Return
- 5 Preparing the Trial
- 6 Interrogating the Prisoner
- Part Two In the Courtroom
- 7 France Waits
- 8 First Day in Court
- 9 Republican Ghosts
- 10 Debating the Armistice
- 11 The Defence Fights Back
- 12 Last Witnesses for the Prosecution
- 13 'You Will Not Make Me Say That the Marshal is a Traitor'
- 14 The Pierre Laval Show
- 15 Generals and Bureaucrats
- 16 The Absent Jews
- 17 The Count, the Assassin and the Blind General
- 18 Réquisitoire and Plaidoiries
- 19 The Verdict
- Part Three Afterlives
- 20 The Prisoner
- 21 Vichy Emerges from the Catacombs
- 22 Keepers of the Flame
- 23 Memory Wars
- 24 Remembering the Jews
- 25 Judging Pétain Today
- Epilogue: On the Pétain Trail
- Notes
- Sources
- Index