The French who fought for Hitler memories from the outcasts
Thousands of Frenchmen volunteered to provide military help to the Nazis during World War II, fighting in such places as Belorussia, Galicia, Pomerania, and Berlin. Utilizing these soldiers' memoirs, The French Who Fought for Hitler examines how these volunteers describe their exploits on the b...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2010
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Backgrounds
- From the Légion des volontaires français to the Division Charlemagne
- The historians' take
- Authenticity
- Verifications and guarantees
- The Sajer case
- Internet debates
- Veracity
- The French in Berlin
- Possibly too much
- As good in bed as on the battlefield
- Possibly too little
- Textualization
- Total recall
- Perspectives
- Frameworks
- The enemy demonized
- Frenchness
- The lens of culture
- Bearing witness
- Enlisting
- Fighting to the end
- Speaking up
- From the outcasts' point of view
- Vanquished
- Rejected
- Unrepentant
- Appendix A: Biographical notices
- Appendix B: Maps