Petain's Crime: The Complete Story of French Collaboration in the Holocaust by Webster, Paul - 1991

Chicago.: Ivan R Dee, Inc., 1991. First edition. 1st American edition.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner address label, inside on 1st end paper. Jacket has 4-inch tear at fold, lower front. Other light edge wear.. 1 Black cloth over spine w/ red titles; gray vertically ribbed paper over boards. Cover: B&W photo on buckle w/ red & white titles. B&W photo section. 225 p. Audience: General/trade. After the fall of France in 1940, World War I hero and "national savior" Marshall Philippe Petain of the "free" Vichy government directed collaboration with Nazis in the extermination of European Jews. Camps were built before occupation, and the last trainload of French Jews to the death camps was in August 1944. Jewish persecution in France had then been part of the French political and philosophical tradition for more than 70 years. The French complicity in the Holocaust was long held in secrecy and censorship following World War II. Author Paul Webster was a journalist with London's "Guardian" and served as Paris correspondent.