Not the Germans Alone: A Son's Search for the Truth of Vichy (Memoir Holocaust Studies) - Softcover

Levendel, Isaac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810118432 ISBN 13: 9780810118430

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2000

Synopsis

On June 5th, 1944, the eve of D-day, Isaac Levendel's mother left the farm in southern France, where she and her son had gone to escape the Nazis, to make a brief trip home to pick up the last of their belongings. She never returned. For more than 40 years, Levendel was tormented by her disappearance. Finally, in 1990, he began to look for answers. He found shocking evidence of widespread French collaboration and government collusion with the Nazis. This is Levendel's story, a powerful exploration of a shameful chapter in history.

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About the Author

Levendel moved from France to Israel in 1957 to study engineering, teach school, and live on a kibbutz. He married shortly after, and in 1974 he, his wife, and their children moved to the U.S. He is a computer scientist.

Robert O. Paxton is professor of history emeritus at Columbia University. A specialist in the history of western Europe in the era of the two world wars, he has written extensively on France under Nazi occupation, including VICHY FRANCE: OLD GUARD AND NEW ORDER (Columbia University Press, 2001) and VICHY FRANCE AND THE JEWS (Stanford University Press, 1995). His most recent work is THE ANATOMY OF FASCISM (Alfred Knopf, 2004).

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810118432
• ISBN 13: 9780810118430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 341