@article{775883,
      recid = {775883},
      author = {Deacon, Valerie,},
      title = {The extreme right in the French resistance : members of  the Cagoule and Corvignolles in the Second World War /},
      pages = {viii, 230 pages ;},
      abstract = {"In the aftermath of World War II, historical accounts and  public commentaries enshrined the French Resistance as an  apolitical, unified movement committed to upholding human  rights, equality, and republican values during the dark  period of German occupation. Valerie Deacon complicates  that conventional view by uncovering extreme-right  participants in the Resistance, specifically those who  engaged in conspiratorial, anti-republican, and  quasi-fascist activities in the 1930s, but later devoted  themselves to freeing the country from Nazi control. The  political campaigns of the 1930s--against communism,  republicanism, freemasonry, and the government--taught  France's ultra-right-wing groups to organize underground  movements. When France fell to the Germans in 1940, many  activists unabashedly cited previous participation in  groups of the extreme right as their motive for joining the  Resistance. Deacon's analysis of extreme-right  participation in the Resistance supports the view that the  domestic situation in Nazi-controlled France was more  complex than had previously been suggested. Extending  beyond past narratives, Deacon details how rightist  resisters navigated between different options in the  changing political context. In the process, she refutes the  established view of the Resistance as apolitical, united,  and Gaullist. The Extreme Right in the French Resistance  highlights the complexities of the French Resistance, what  it meant to be a resister, and how the experiences of the  extreme right proved incompatible with the postwar  resistance narrative"--Publisher's website.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/775883},
}