The Politics of Apoliticism : : Political Trials in Vichy France, 1940-1942 / / James Herbst.
In 1942, the dictatorial regime of occupied France held a show trial that didn‘t work. In a society from which democratic checks and balances had been eliminated, under a regime that made its own laws to try its opponents, the government‘s signature legal initiative – a court packed with sympathetic...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t 1. Introduction -- |t 2. “No other explanation seemed possible” -- |t 3. Certain ideas of France -- |t 4. Making Vichy’s Trials -- |t 5. Riom as National Revolution -- |t 6. Reynaud, Mandel, Auriol: The Limits of Legalistic Apoliticism -- |t 7. Riom as Parliament -- |t 8. The Massilia Affair and the Clermont-Ferrand Desertion Trials -- |t 9. Conclusion -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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520 | |a In 1942, the dictatorial regime of occupied France held a show trial that didn‘t work. In a society from which democratic checks and balances had been eliminated, under a regime that made its own laws to try its opponents, the government‘s signature legal initiative – a court packed with sympathetic magistrates and soldiers whose investigation of the defunct republic‘s leaders was supposed to demonstrate the superiority of the new regime – somehow not only failed to result in a conviction, but, in spite of the fact that only government-selected journalists were allowed to attend, turned into a podium for the regime‘s most bitter opponents. The public relations disaster was so great that the government was ultimately forced to cancel the trial. This catastrophic would-be show trial was not forced upon the regime by Germans unfamiliar with the state of domestic opinion; rather, it was a home-grown initiative whose results disgusted not only the French, but also the occupiers. This book offers a new explanation for the failure of the Riom Trial: that it was the result of ideas about the law that were deeply imbedded in the culture of the regime’s supporters. They genuinely believed that their opponents had been playing politics with the nation’s interests, whereas their own concerns were apolitical. The ultimate lesson of the Riom Trial is that the abnegation of politics can produce results almost as bad as a deliberate commitment to stamping out the beliefs of others. Today, politicians on both sides of the political spectrum denounce excessive polarization as the cause of political gridlock; but this may simply be what real democracy looks like when it seeks to express the wishes of a divided people. | ||
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