“Scum of the Earth”“We need to analyze what happened in France against the background of the fight against Nazism in Europe, but also in the context of the Holocaust and the Cold War,” says Gildea in a telephone conversation.
The Spanish Republicans took part in the victory parade, wearing the German soldiers’ helmets, which they had repainted blue.
“The simplistic tale about the French national liberation only represents one part of the story, not all of it,” notes Gildea.
Fighters in the Shadows, which is scheduled for release in France in the spring of 2017, has already received critical acclaim in The Economist and The New York Review of Books, where it was reviewed by the great Vichy historian Robert O. Paxton.
In his new book, Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance, British history professor Robert Gildea deconstructs this rhetoric, drawing up a detailed portrait of the occupation years with a critical eye.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/11/inenglish/1476196791_317656.html
