fight. I managed to flee to the eastern shore through side lanes and the southern meadows of the Rhine. The general was condemned to death in absentia by a court of the Wehrmacht . This was no longer mentioned twenty years later, when [Charles] de
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Fiery Streams of Lava, Frozen into Memory. Many Farewells to War
Memories that Are Not Interchangeable
Reinhart Koselleck, Translated By Margrit Pernau, and Sébastien Tremblay
Camille Robcis and Benjamin Poole
American) movies and series filling airtime as more channels appeared. By the sixties, information gained attention, as leaders like Charles de Gaulle began to exploit the political potential of state-run television. Ultimately, debates about media
Hannah Callaway, Alec G. Hargreaves, and John P. Murphy
,” in the northeastern Parisian suburb of Gonesse, near Charles de Gaulle airport, their study is longitudinal: the authors follow different “generations” of residents, including the “pioneers,” who settled in the Poplars in the 1950s and 1960s; more
To Bear Witness After the Era of the Witness
The Projects of Christophe Boltanski and Ivan Jablonka
Donald Reid
marriage to Étienne in 1929, Myriam contracted polio. However, she refused to think of herself as disabled and would not use a wheelchair. When she knew she was going to take a flight at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, with its long escalators, she would go to
By Sentiment and By Status
Remembering and Forgetting Crémieux during the Franco-Algerian War
Jessica Hammerman
, believers in the colonial project as an emancipatory one. By 1961, two years after Charles de Gaulle announced that all peoples had a right to self-determination, this changed quickly. Jewish leaders could no longer defend the French colonial project with
Sandbags, Strikes, and Scandals
Public Disorder and Problematic Policing in Occupied Roubaix during World War I
James E. Connolly
’Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3, 2012), 15–62; Villes et Pays d’art et d’Histoire, Roubaix, Chemins de Mémoire 14–18: Laissez-vous conter la Résistance à Roubaix durant la Grande Guerre (online publication, 2010), 6, accessed 20 July 2015, fr
Nadia Malinovich
up negative Jewish associations—the Dreyfus Affair, Vichy collaboration, Charles de Gaulle’s decision to side with the Arab League in 1967, and, more recently, a rise in acts of anti-Jewish violence coinciding with the second intifada in 2000—or no
Menachem Begin’s World Travels in the 1950s
A Road to Political Legitimacy
Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky
Revisionist movement, and past and present heads of the French government, thus maintaining contact with a long list of notables. In 1952, he met Charles de Gaulle as well as Georges Heuillard of the Radical Socialist Party, who later participated in the Herut
The Origins of the Stanley Hoffmann We Knew
Some Comparisons on his Vichy Years with My Family Story
Peter Gourevitch
“Self-Ensnared: Collaboration with Nazi Germany,” 2 and “In the Looking Glass: Sorrow and Pity?” 3 reprinted in a substantial collection of essays 4 that included notable pieces on Charles de Gaulle; contributions to important volumes such as La
The Office de la Famille Française
Familialism and the National Revolution in 1940s Morocco
Margaret Cook Andersen
in 1940. 29 Moreover, in the wake of the Armistice there was a period of uncertainty as to whether the colonies and protectorates would ally with Vichy or, in solidarity with Charles de Gaulle’s appeal of 18 June, continue to fight Germany. This