Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; A Note on Sources; A Note on the Organisation of the Police; Introduction; 1. From Hope to Disappointment: The Police Experience of the Popular Front; 2. Marseille Chicago; 3. Enthusiasm and Co-operation: The Start of the Vichy Government; 4. Policing Opposition; 5. Anti-Semitic Policing; 6. The Hunt for German Spies; 7. Ripping the Heart Out of Marseille; 8. Disaffection and Unreliability; 9. The New Slave Trade; 10. New Rivals; 11. Towards Liberation; 12. A New Police for a New France?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
In Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945 Simon Kitson challenges assumptions about the attitude and behaviour of the French Police and its role with regard to Resistance, Collaboration, the Holocaust and the forced labour draft during the Second World War
