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Born in 1952 in the American south, Richard Golsan’s interest in Vichy and the Holocaust was inspired by childhood experiences in southern France as well as growing up in the United States in a time of political and social turmoil marked by the civil rights movement, the assassination of John Kennedy, and the Vietnam War. His ego-history shows how his path and success as a scholar of Vichy and of its political and cultural legacies were facilitated by mentors and colleagues in France and the United States whose work inspired him and whose generosity enabled his research.
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Editors’ note: See Henry Rousso, Chapter “From a Foreign Country”.
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See for example Robert Frank’s La Hantise du déclin (2014) for an interesting discussion of the weight of the 1940 defeat.
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Editors’ note: The Military Selective Service Act of 1967, prompted by the Vietnam War , allowed education al deferments for men aged between eighteen and twenty-six years old. Draft lotteries were put in place from 1969 to determine the order in which young American s would be called up for duty.
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See, for example, the chapter on Giono in my book French Writers and the Politics of Complicity (2006).
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Golsan, R.J. (2018). Good Fortune, Good Friends. In: Bragança, M., Louwagie, F. (eds) Ego-histories of France and the Second World War. The Holocaust and its Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70860-7_12
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