Fleeing Hitler: France 1940
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Main Author: Diamond, Hanna 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-245) and index
The first ever account of how the fall of France to the Germans in 1940 affected the lives of ordinary French people. Using eyewitness accounts, Hanna Diamond tells a story of mass exodus, defeat, humiliation, and occupation - opening the way for the triumph of the Vichy regime under Marshal P--eacute--;tain. - ;Wednesday 12th June 1940. The Times reported 'thousands upon thousands of Parisians leaving the capital by every possible means, preferring to abandon home and property rather than risk even temporary Nazi domination'
The invasion of Paris -- On the road -- Death of the Third Republic -- The people's decisions -- Summer-Autumn 1940 -- Back to 'normal'? -- Afterword: Forgetting and remembering the Exodus
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 255 Seiten)
ISBN:9780191517440
0191517445

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