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By Olivier Wieviorka

France's event of global conflict II used to be now not basically one in every of armed clash, yet quite of profession, collaboration, resistance, and persecution. because the finish of the warfare, France has struggled with how you can comprehend and keep in mind that event. In Divided Memory, Olivier Wieviorka recounts the position that the reminiscence of the profession and the Resistance has performed in shaping the feel of the earlier held by way of a number of segments of French society. He explores the best way reminiscence can concentration political and social clash. every one management because the conflict has taken a unique method of responding to those stories and has tried to lead public opinion via them. Charles de Gaulle attempted to overwrite Vichy's collaboration via selling the tale of a French army victory over Germany. Others excited about memorializing sufferers or tried to fail to remember this painful time altogether. Wieviorka indicates that, disparate as they're, none of those methods have labored, and France is still divided by way of its thoughts of resistance and collaboration.

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