Books:
- Robert Gildea, France Since 1945 (Oxford: OUP, 1996)
- Marc Bloch, The Strange Defeat (New York, Norton, 1999 [1946, transl. 1999])
- Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History (8th edition Boston et al.: Bedford BKS St Martin's, 2015).
Compendium (available at Akademika - please bring your student ID with you):
Philip Cooke and Ben H. Shepherd, ‘Introduction,’ in Philip Cooke and Ben H. Shepherd (eds.), European Resistance in the Second World War (Barnsley: Pen & Sword Praetorian Press, 2013), pp. 1-13. (= 12 pages)
Miriam Dobson and Benjamin Ziemann, ‘Introduction,’ in Miriam Dobson and Benjamin Ziemann (eds.), Reading Primary Sources: The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 1-18. (= 19 pages)
Jackson, Julian, The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 (Oxford, OUP, 2003), pp. 185-212.
Pieter Lagrou, The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965 (Cambridge, CUP, 2000), pp. 38-47 (= 9 pages)
Robert Gildea, Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015), pp. 1-18 and 445-482 (= 48 pages)
Sudhir Hazareesingh, In the Shadow of the General: Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle (Oxford et al.: OUP, 2012), pp. 16-37.
Henry Rousso, The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944 (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1991 [1987, transl. 1991]), pp. 1-11 and 60-97 (= 48 pages)
Dominick LaCapra, History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004), pp. 72-106. (= 34 pages)
Sisley Huddleston, Pétain, Patriot or Traitor? (London, 1951), pp. 9-11 (= 3 pages)
Robert Paxton, Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 (London, Barrie and Jenkins, 1972, new ed., New York, Columbia University Press, 2001 [transl. into French in 1973]), pp. 357-383 (= 26 pages)
Jean-Pierre Azéma, ‘The Paxtonian Revolution,’ in Fishman Sarah et al (eds), France at War: Vichy and the Historians (Oxford: Berg, 2000), pp. 13-20 (= 7 pages)
Stanley Hoffmann, ‘Vichy Studies in France: Before and After Paxton,’ in Fishman Sarah et al (eds), France at War: Vichy and the Historians (Oxford: Berg, 2000), pp. 49-57. (=8 pages)
Henri Rousso, ‘The Historian, a Site of Memory,’ in Fishman Sarah et al (eds), France at War: Vichy and the Historians (Oxford: Berg, 2000), pp. 285-302 (= 17 pages)
Robert Frank, ‘The Second World War through French and British Eyes,’ in Emile Chabal and Robert Tombs (eds.), Britain and France in Two World Wars: Truth, Myth and Memory (London et al.: Bloomsbury, 2013), pp. 179-192. (= 13 pages)
Richard Joseph Golsan, Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), pp. 73-87. (= 14 pages)
Jeffrey Richards, ‘Film and television: The moving image,’ in Sarah Barber and Corinna M. Peniston-Bird (eds.), History Beyond the Text: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 72-88. (= 14 pages).
Michael Marrus, and Robert Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews (Stanford University Press, 1995 [1981]), pp. 343-372 (= 29 pages)
Johannes Heuman, The Holocaust and French Historical Culture, 1945–65 (Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 1-21 (= 20 pages).
Laura Jockusch, ‘Breaking the Silence: The Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris and the Writing of Holocaust History in Liberated France,’ in David Cesarani and Eric J. Sundquist (eds.), After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence (London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 67-81. (= 14 pages).
Annette Wieviorka, ‘France and Trials for Crimes against Humanity,’ in Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey (eds.), Lives in the Law (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002), pp. 215-231. (= 16 pages)
Lawrence Douglas, ‘Retrials and Precursors: Klaus Barbie and John Demjanjuk,’ in Lawrence Douglas, The Memory of Judgement: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), pp. 185-211. (= 16 pages)
Harry R. Kedward, ‘Introduction: ‘Ici commence la France libre,’ in Harry R. Kedward and Nancy Wood (eds.), The Liberation of France: Image and Event (Oxford, Berg, 1995), pp. 1-11 (= 11 pages)
Fabrice Virgili, Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France (Oxford, Berg, 2002 (2000, transl. 2002]), pp. 236-243 (= 8 pages)
Elizabeth Buettner, Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture (Cambridge: CUP, 2016), pp. 106-62. (= 56 pages)
Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2013), pp. 1-12.
Helle Bjerg, ?Claudia Lenz and ?Erik Thorstensen, ‘Introduction,’ in Helle Bjerg, ?Claudia Lenz and ?Erik Thorstensen (eds.), Historicizing the Uses of the Past: Scandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness and Didactics of History related to World War II (Bielefeld: transcript, 2011), pp. 7-24 (= 17 pages)
Synne Corell, ‘The Solidity of a National Narrative: The German Occupation in Norwegian History Culture,’ in Henrik Stenius, Mirja ?sterberg and Johan ?stling (eds.), Nordic Narratives of the Second World War: National Historiographies Revisited (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2011), pp. 101-126. (= 25 pages)
Tor Einar Fogerland and Ingeborg Hjorth, ‘From Patriotic to Transnational Memory: Reflections on the Memorial Landscape of Norway ca. 1990-2014,’ in Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen and Grete Swensen (eds.), Heritage, Democracy and the Public: Nordic Approaches (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. pp. 27-37.
Claus Bundg?rd Christensen, ‘”The Five Evil Years”: National Self-Image, Commemoration and Historiography in Denmark 1945-2010: Trends in Historiography and Commemoration, in John Gilmour and Jill Stephenson (eds.), Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy: The Consequences of the German Invasion for the Scandinavian Countries, Then and Now (London et al.: Bloomsbury, 2013), pp. 147-159 (= 12 pages)
Sabine Hake, Screen Nazis: Cinema, History, and Democracy (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012), pp. 189-223 (= 34 pages)
Christina Kraenzle and Maria Mayr, ‘Introduction: The Usable Past and Futures of Transnational European Memories,’ in Christina Kraenzle and Maria Mayr (eds.), The Changing Place of Europe in Global Memory Cultures: Usable Pasts and Futures (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017), pp. 1-22. (= 21 pages)
Claudia Lenz, ‘Linking Holocaust Education to Human Rights Education – A Symptom of the Universalisation and Denationalization of Memory Culture in Norway?’ in Arnd Bauerk?moer et al. (eds.), From Patriotic Memory to a Universalistic Narrative? Shifts in Norwegian Memory Cultures after 1945 in Comparative Perspective (Berlin: Klartext, 2014), pp. 87-103. (= 17 pages)
Peter Carrier, ‘Holocaust Memoriography and the Impact of Memory on the Historiography of the Holocaust’, in Bill Niven und Stefan Berger (eds.), Writing the History of Memory (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), pp. 199-218. (= 19 pages)
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