There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the French have been absolutely obsessed with the Vichy regime. They have an… — 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
