Jean-Pierre Le Crom, Au secours, Maréchal ! L’instrumentalisation de l’humanitaire (1940-1944)

Jean-Pierre Le Crom’s most recent monograph tracks the rise and fall of the Secours national (SN), a parastatal relief organization decreed into existence by the Daladier administration in November 1939 and not disbanded until ten years later. As Le Crom’s subtitle indicates, however, it is the years 1940-1944 that are of greatest interest to him. This is not the first time Le Crom has written on Vichy social policy. In Syndicats, nous voilà (1995), he looked at the regime’s decision to manda

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