March 27 is remembered as the day 65,000 Jews were deported from Drancy internment camp in France to German extermination camps in 1942. The plot to move them was crafted by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf ...

A national conscience stricken by collective guilt is not easily assuaged. For all the palliative steps that can be taken, from reparation programs and documentation centers to memorial gardens and ...

The generation to which I belong has a bad conscience. —Marc Bloch, 1940 The fall of France to Hitler’s army in the summer of 1940, besides marking a fateful turn in the military history of the Second ...

Henry Rousso, a historian of Vichy France, had a peculiar experience while travelling from Paris to Houston last week. At an immigration window in George Bush International Airport, he reported that ...