Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he was capable of some horrendous blunders when he was president. He once said that the Vichy legislation against… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Well, almost everything is open - the political documents, the (unintelligible) of cabinet meetings. What has been opened now and what had been closed are things that many governments still close, and that is police files and trial records, trial… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of good birding… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical. — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“Looking for fears, indeed, may be a more fruitful research strategy than a literal-minded quest for thinkers who “created” fascism.” — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“It became harder for them to indulge their initial freedom to mobilize a wide range of heterogeneous complaints, and to voice the scattered resentments… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“An interlocking set of new enemies was emerging: globalization, foreigners, multiculturalism, environmental regulation, high taxes, and the incompetent politicians who could not cope with… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he was capable… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity,… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“Fascism is “true" insofar as it helps fulfill the destiny of a chosen race or people or blood, locked with other peoples in a… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“The most interesting aspects of the story lie between the two extremes of coercion and popularity. It might be instructive to consider fascist regimes’… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
