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
4 - The Triumph of the Spirit
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
For many Christians who had been in the camps, however, such squabbling among survivors missed the real meaning of the camp experience. For Jesuit Father Michel Riquet, a disciple of Jacques Maritain and a Mauthausen survivor himself, the Nazis were not so much fascists or totalitarians as they were latter-day pagans, who like the Egyptian pharaoh of old or the emperors of Rome had inflicted unspeakable cruelties on God’s children. These martyrs deserved memorializing, and Riquet led the fight to create just such a memorial, the Mémorial des martyrs de la Déportation on the Ile de la Cité just behind Notre-Dame Cathedral (where Father Riquet preached Easter sermons). It was inaugurated in 1962.
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- After the DeportationMemory Battles in Postwar France, pp. 125 - 159Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020