Book contents
- After the Deportation
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- After the Deportation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Heroes and Martyrs
- 1 Le Parti des Déportés
- 2 The Concentrationary Universe
- 3 Monster with One Eye Open
- 4 The Triumph of the Spirit
- 5 The Six Million
- 6 The Thirty Years’ War
- Part II Shoah
- Epilogue and Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
3 - Monster with One Eye Open
from Part I - Heroes and Martyrs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2020
- After the Deportation
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- After the Deportation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Heroes and Martyrs
- 1 Le Parti des Déportés
- 2 The Concentrationary Universe
- 3 Monster with One Eye Open
- 4 The Triumph of the Spirit
- 5 The Six Million
- 6 The Thirty Years’ War
- Part II Shoah
- Epilogue and Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
Summary
There were a number of ex-deportees, however, who felt that UNADIF had not gone far enough, that it had turned a blind eye to France’s own implication in the concentration camp universe. For throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s, France was engaged in a bitter colonial war in Algeria, and it did not scruple to use internment camps to incarcerate its enemies. Concentration camp survivors like Jean Cayrol (who had been at Gusen, near Mauthausen) and Charlotte Delbo (who had been at Auschwitz) opposed the war, and echoes of such opposition resonate in the commentary Cayrol wrote for Alain Resnais’ pioneering documentary on camp life, Nuit et Brouillard (1956), and in Delbo’s formidable Auschwitz trilogy, Auschwitz et après (1965-1970-1971).
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- After the DeportationMemory Battles in Postwar France, pp. 88 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020