Collective Indifference towards the Fate of the Gypsies Held in French Camps (1940-1946)
Filhol, Emmanuel
Collective Indifference towards the Fate of the Gypsies Held in French Camps (1940-1946) - 2007.
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During the Second World War, the internment of Gypsies in France proceeded in a climate of general indifference. One might have thought, thanks to the research on the Vichy Government undertaken since?1975, that the fate meted out to the French Gypsies would no longer remain unknown. No such thing. Unlike the Gypsy communities, which keep alive their memories of this tragic period when the people's heart was broken, collective memory, such as emanates from the authorities, from popular opinion, or from the prevailing historical discourse, testifies even today, apart from a few exceptions, to a refusal to learn.
Collective Indifference towards the Fate of the Gypsies Held in French Camps (1940-1946) - 2007.
56
During the Second World War, the internment of Gypsies in France proceeded in a climate of general indifference. One might have thought, thanks to the research on the Vichy Government undertaken since?1975, that the fate meted out to the French Gypsies would no longer remain unknown. No such thing. Unlike the Gypsy communities, which keep alive their memories of this tragic period when the people's heart was broken, collective memory, such as emanates from the authorities, from popular opinion, or from the prevailing historical discourse, testifies even today, apart from a few exceptions, to a refusal to learn.
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