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The relationship between the emerging Holocaust remembrance and France’s national-historical cult ure moved into new a phase at the end of the 1950s. With Charles de Gaulle’s return to power in 1958, first as prime minister and then as the president of the Fifth Republic introduced that year, the Gaullist narrative of a united resistance against the German occupier during the war was strengthened. The Gaullist view of the past reached its peak in the mid-1960s; one of its most famous manifestations was the transfer of the remains of the Resistance hero Jean Moulin to the Panthéon in December 1964 in a ceremony that spanned two days, partly broadcast on national television.1 At the same time, however, Holocaust remembrance with its new platform in Paris was more in evidence following the inauguration of the Mémorial. Only a month after Moulin was reburied in to the Panthéon, the new institution staged an international Holocaust exhibition, inaugurated in the presence of diplomatic representatives from 17 nations and foreign delegations from 14 countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

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Heuman, J. (2015). The Holocaust Enters French Historical Culture. In: The Holocaust and French Historical Culture, 1945–65. The Holocaust and its Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137529336_6

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