Vichy France

If I had to choose one film that represents Hollywood’s involvement in the Second World War, it would have to be Michael Curtiz’s 1942 film “Casablanca” . Examining just this film demonstrates the reasons to study the war films, especially with those produced during the war. From this type of film, we get the producers, directors writers and actors viewpoint reflected in the story that they are producing. The film is, from the producers’ time view, about current events thereby the film will…

What is morality? Surely it can’t be taking men, women, and children to a camp because you don’t like the color of their skin, their religion, or even what people from their home country have done. Sure, the Japanese bombed us first. But does that make it right to bomb them back? Twice at that. In my opinion, no. No matter how dangerous the enemy is, it is never right to attack innocent men, women and children. I feel that america was too afraid and tired of the war to realize that the japanese…

upon by the Vichy government and organized by both the French police and German officials in order to reduce the Jewish population.9 There are disputes of the number of Jews that were rounded up during these two days in Paris; Anne Sebba estimates that 13,152 Jews were rounded up,10 while the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum estimates that 13,000 were rounded up by French authorities;11 Anne Sebba most likely took her number from the estimates widely accepted by present-day France which…

France in the nineteenth century hit on some of the darker parts of modernity on its journey to the France of today. There were many events and attitudes that a good portion of French men and women would like to forget. Many governmental officials, historians, and citizens of that time period repressed or consciously used policies and writings to perpetuate a myth that allowed for these same events and attitudes to fall by the wayside. In recent years, revisionist historians, or historians who…

for the rapid fall of France in 1940. Some, if not most, of the attention is given to Hitler’s blitzkrieg style of invasion as a main reason for France’s crushing defeat, but there were many other factors that compounded the devastation that was associated with Hitler’s war on France. As I will highlight, the German advance via the “all new” tank tactics of the time was an extremely devastating driving force that was the tip of the spear but, it should also be noted that France it’s self was a…

During World War II, France had given in an signed an armistice of peace. France was easily invaded because things were all over the place. France was not a united nation, they had a disorganized army, no formal government, and a wrong assumed attack plan. Ultimately, there was a feeling of French weakness but with a good reason. France wanted to save anything they could to preserve their culture and politics. Marianne in Chains, written by Robert Gildea explores the daily lives of the French…

thinking herself out; creating a sense of freedom for herself. When staying true to herself, she has hope and wishes Peter would too. She knows that if he chooses to believe in something, it will offer him hope in his dark times. The President of France also uses his power to support a strong country through hope when they are facing oppression. He feels that the terrorists want the citizens to suffer therefore attacking them at an unexpected time. He addresses his country and says that “this…

Never to be Forgotten and America and the holocaust are two pieces of work that deal with families and their hardships and losses during the war. Never to be Forgotten is the story of Beatrice Muchman and her family. Beatrice tells the story from her point-of-view as a Jewish child in a Nazi-occupied Belgium. America and the holocaust was a documentary about Kurt Klein and his family during the holocaust. There are many simliarities and differences between these two incredible stories of the…

France played a major role in WWII, whether it was trying to save all of Europe by not letting Nazi Germany invaded Poland without a consequence. Maybe it was their desire for a free France that made them create a resistance that inspired others to do it against the Nazis as well. Also, one of the greatest military operations in history took place in France in order to continue the liberation of Europe. France entered WWII in September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and France…

Corbeau, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, was released in 1943 during World War 2 in France. The film was produced by Continental, a French film production company bankrolled by the German government to produce lighthearted and joyful films that had no political plot, but rather played on and exploited the French culture. Clouzot got fired before Le Corbeau release due to it’s harsh look at provincial France, which was quite the opposite of what the Germans wanted. In the film, Clouzot tries…