The 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) and Charlemagne .. The French Who Fought for Hitler: Memories from the Outcasts.
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- The Charlemagne Unit and the Defence of Berlin
- French Volunteers in the Wehrmacht in WWII
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The Charlemagne Unit and the Defence of Berlin
France surrendered to the Nazis in for complex reasons. The proximate cause, of course, was the success of the German invasion, which left metropolitan France at the mercy of Nazi armies. But the German victory opened profound rifts in French society.
Instead of fleeing the country and keeping up the fight, as the Dutch government and a residue of the French military did, the bulk of the French government and military hierarchy made peace with the Germans. But what if key figures such as Marshal Philippe Petain had viewed the situation differently? If the French government had decided to go into exile in the Empire, rather than re-establish itself in the German protectorate at Vichy, then the rest of World War II might have gone very differently.
France had extensive assets available to continue its resistance against the Axis powers. Had the French acted with any speed to the success of the German Ardennes offensive, this fleet could have evacuated a substantial portion of the French Army to Britain and to North Africa, possibly with much of its equipment intact.
The project is of real interest and importance, and I admire Philippe Carrard for the courage to undertake it, and to successfully complete it.
French Volunteers in the Wehrmacht in WWII
Carrard's focus on texts that are dubious in provenance and in moral position makes this an important contribution to the literature on memory and to that of war and occupation experience. Torrie, German Studies Review. The French Who Fought for Hitler examines how the Frenchmen who volunteered to fight for the Nazis during World War II describe in their memoirs their exploits on the battlefield, their relations to civilian populations in occupied territories, and their sexual prowess.
It also discusses how the volunteers account for their controversial decisions to enlist, to fight to the end, and finally to testify.
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Utilizing these soldiers' memoirs, The French Who Fought for Hitler examines how these volunteers describe their exploits on the battlefield, their relations to civilian populations in occupied territories, and their sexual prowess. Coining the concepts of "outcast memory" and "unlikeable vanquished," Philippe Carrard characterizes the type of bitter, unrepentant memory at work in the volunteers' recollections and situates it on the map of France's collective memory. In the process, he contributes to the ongoing conversation about memory, asking whether all testimonies are fit to be given and preserved, and how we should deal with life narratives that uphold positions now viewed as unacceptable.
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