Full Description
The Papon Affair is the definitive English-language work on a trial that is now considered to be the most significant in late twentieth-century France. Papon, who served as a Vichy bureaucrat, was charged with assisting in the deportation of several trainloads of Jews from the Bordeaux region to Nazi death camps between 1942 and 1944. After the War, his career included both a stint as Prefect of Paris Police and as a cabinet finance minister. The inconclusiveness of the verdict which, even after six months of testimony, left unresolved not only important legal and historical issues, but political, philosophical and moral issues as well. Richard Golsan has brought together the crucial French journalistic pieces on the trial along with several essays by leading American and British scholars to help contextualize the trial for an English-speaking audience. The book delves deeply into the fascinating debates about the nature of French complicity in the Final Solution and of memory itself. Contributors: Nathan Bracher, Philippe Bernard, Philippe Burin, Michel Dubec, Jean-Luc Einaudi, Alain Finkielkraut, Christopher G. Flood, Richard J. Golsan, Eberhard Jackel, Van Kelly, François Maspero, Robert O. Paxton, Acacio Pereira, Henry Rousso, Zeev Sternhell, Benjamin Stora, Tzvetan Todorov, Jean-Marc Varaut, Nancy Wood, Michael Zaoui.
Contents
Table of Contents: The Papon Affair Preface Part I-The Papon Affair:Historical, Legan and Psychoanalytic Perspectives Maurice Papon's REconversion and Itinerary after World War II: A Perfect's Road through Algeria to Paris (August 1944-October 1961)by Van Kelly Extreme Right Wing Perspectives on Papon and Tourvier Trialsby Christopher G. Flood The Papon Trial in an 'Era of Testimony'by Nancy Wood The Trial of Papon anf the Tribulation of Gaullismby Nathan Bracher The Legal Legacy of Maurice Paponby Leila Nadya Sadat Part II-Papon's Trial for Crimes Against Humanity and the Press An interview with Maurice Papon and Analysisby Annette Levy-Willard Vichy on Trialby Robert O. Paxton Today, Everything Converges on the Haunting Memory of Vichy: An Interview with Pierre Noraby Nicholas Weill and Robert Sole Those Who Organized the Trains Knew there would be Deaths: An Interview with Robert O. Paxtonby Annette Levy-Willard and Beatrice Vallaeys Maurice Papon was not Aloneby Zeev Sternhell The Papon Investigation Brings to Light the True Role of France in Nazi Europe: An Interview with Philippe Burrinby Thomas Ferenczi Papon: Too Lateby Henry Rousso Nazism, Vichy, and the Papon Trial seen by a German Historial: An Interview with Eberhard Jackelby Lucas Delattre Maurice Papon and Crime Pathologyby Michel Dubec Are We All Guiltyby Francois Maspero Letter from Paris: The Papon Trialby Tzevetam Todorov Part III-The Other Papon Trial: 17 October 1961 According to the Mandelkern REport Thirty Two Were Killed during the Night of 17 October 1961by Philippe Bernard October 1961: For the Truth, at Lastby Jean-Luc Einaudi One of the Few Times since the Nineteenth Century that Police Have Fired on Workers in Paris: An Interview with Benjamin Storaby Philippe Bernard Maurice Papon Delcares the Bloody Crackdown of 17 October 1961 'An Unfortuante Evening'by Acacio Pereira The Magistrate's Court of Paris Acknowledges the Extreme Violence of the Polcie Crackdown of 17 October 1961by Philippe Bernard Bibliography Appendix: Chronology
