Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust
French Railwaymen and the Second World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23242522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ludivine Broch (0000-0002-9673-4919, University of Westminster, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781139600453 |
| OpenAlex | W2736176978 |
| Open Library | OL34560848M |
| ISBN | 9781139600453 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy France through the prism of the French railwaymen – the cheminots. De-sanctifying the idea of railwaymen as heroic saboteurs, Broch reveals the daily life of these workers who accommodated with the Vichy regime, cohabitated with the Germans and stole from their employer. Moreover, by intertwining the history of the working classes with Holocaust history, she highlights unexpected histories under Vichy and sensitive memories of the post-war period. Ultimately, this book bursts the myths of cheminot resistance and collaboration in the Holocaust, and reveals that there is more to their story than this. The cheminots fed both the French nation and the German military apparatus, exemplifying the complexities of personal, professional and political life under occupation.
Archaeology · Deportation · Genocide · German · Immigration · Media studies · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Prism · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · The Holocaust · World War II · Classics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · North African History and Literature · 1939-1945 · 1940-1945 · Déportations de France · Deportations from France · Deportations from France (1939-1945 : World War) fast (OCoLC)fst01710169 · Employees · France · german occupation · German Occupation of France (1940-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01353176 · Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) · Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) · Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866 · Railroads · Religious aspects · Shoah · Société nationale des chemins de fer français · Thèses et écrits académiques · Transportation · World War · World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924 · World war, deportations from france
Genocide Studies and Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Leadership and Mass Atrocity
The ‘ideal perpetrator’
Pétain’s Jewish children French Jewish youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940-1942
Enveloping Europe
Finding the archival traces of “misery trains”
The centrality of railways in the German concentration camp system
Separated Families and Epistolary Assistance
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |