Tribute to Jean-Pierre Azema, the Historian Who Changed Our Gaze on Vichy
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Decede was 85 years old and marked the 1980s by his rigor and his willingness to face the black pages of history to which he was linked. Portrait by one of his peers.
Eighty-three years after the raid of the Vél-d-Hiv, historians insisting on the more than anti-Semitic xenophobic dimension of the French state consider themselves defamed and have brought several lawsuits against academics and journalists.
The academic, known for his work on Vichy and the Resistance, leaves behind him a major work that has profoundly marked contemporary historiography. The disappearance of Jean-Pierre Azema, which occurred on Monday in Paris at the age of 87, deprives the academic world of a major figure of studies over the period 1939-1945. Undisputed specialist of France under [...] The article Jean-Pierre Azema, eminent historian of the Second World War, was ex…
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