Policie v Marseille a vichistický režim
Police in Marseille and the Vichy Regime

Summary/Abstract: KITSON, Simon. Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936–1945. Leiden: Brill 2014,326 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-24835-9. The reviewer provides an account of interpretations of the British historian; he sees their main contribution in rich facts based on a thorough study of French archival documents and a novel angle of view unburdened by extensive and often heated discussions over phenomena of resistance and collaboration in the French historiography and society. In the reviewer’s opinion, the book´s strengths also include an interdisciplinary approach combining social history, everyday history and police history with the so-called great political history. The author drafts a much more diverse and disparate picture of reality than that suggested by established myths about the police force extensively and voluntarily collaborating both with Germans and the Vichy regime, about the cowardice of police officers and their permanent links to the world of crime.

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