Title After the deportation : memory battles in postwar France / Philip Nord, Princeton University

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 472 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare. Contents Le Parti des Déportés -- The Concentrationary Universe -- Monster with One Eye Open -- The Triumph of the Spirit -- The Six Million -- The Thirty Years' War -- Holocaust -- The Teaching of Contempt -- Witnesses -- Generation -- "The Return of the Repressed" -- Shoah Summary "An estimated 160,000 persons were deported from France to camps in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War. 76,000 of these were Jews. Of the rest, a rough half, 41,000 or so, were résistants. The Jews did not survive the ordeal: a mere 2,500 returned. Résistants and others fared better-47,500 came back-, but the toll was still a terrible one. The figures are an eloquent reminder, if one is needed, of the lethalness of the German camp system. Non-racial deportees had a somewhat better than fifty-fifty chance of coming out alive. For a Jew, transport to the East amounted to a death sentence. Embedded in the numbers is also an assumption: that the story of the Deportation, as the French call it, was double. Résistants and Jews alike were herded onto trains and shipped eastward, but the fate that awaited them was not the same, and a vocabulary has been invented to characterize the difference. David Rousset was arrested for Resistance activities in 1943 and packed off to a series of camps, Neuengamme and Buchenwald the most infamous among them. He had an insider's knowledge of the Nazi carceral archipelago and lived to write about it, publishing L'Univers concentrationnaire in 1946. The text was one of the first of its kind, an analysis of the camp phenomenon understood as an alternate reality, a system with an infernal logic all its own. The term caught on and, translated as concentrationary universe, has even migrated into English. Jews do make an appearance in Rousset's oeuvre, but they are marginal to the story he has to tell"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 03, 2020) Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from France. World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, French Holocaust survivors -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography. Deportation Historiography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in art Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures Holocaust survivors -- Historiography France Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020046855 ISBN 9781108781398 110878139X

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