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050 00 DD247.A24 |bM38 2016
100 1  Mauthner, Martin, |eauthor.
245 10 Otto Abetz and his Paris acolytes : |bFrench writers who flirted with fascism, 1930-1945 / |cMartin Mauthner.
264  1 Brighton : |bSussex Academic Press, |c2016.
264  4  |c©2016
300    xi, 369 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-338) and index.
520 2  "Before Hitler comes to power Otto Abetz is a left-wing Francophile teacher in provincial Germany, mobilizing young French and German idealists to work together for peace through Franco-German reconciliation and a united Europe. Abetz marries a French girl but after 1933 succumbs to the Nazi sirens. Ribbentrop recruits him as his expert on France, tasking him with soothing the nervous French, as Hitler turns Germany into a war machine. Abetz builds up a network of opinion-moulding French men and women who admire the Nazis and detest the Bolsheviks, and encourages them to use their pens to highlight Hitler's triumphs. In 1939 France expels Abetz as a Nazi agent. The following year he returns in triumph with the German army as Hitler appoints him as his ambassador in Paris. During the war Abetz (apart from 'securing' works of art and playing a role in the deportation of Jews) manoeuvres three of his French publicist friends--Jean Luchaire, Fernand de Brinon, Drieu la Rochelle--into key positions, from where they can laud Nazi achievements and denigrate the Resistance. A prime question the author addresses is why these writers, and two others, Jules Romains and Bertrand de Jouvenel--all of whom had close Jewish family connections--supported the Nazi ideology. At the war's end Drieu commits suicide, while Luchaire and Brinon are tried and executed as traitors. Abetz, charged with war crimes, pleads that he has saved France from being 'Polonized', but a French court finds him guilty and he is imprisoned. Released early, he dies in a mysterious car crash--a saboteur being suspected of having tampered with the steering"-- |cProvided by publisher.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Abetz, Otto Friedrich, |d1903-1958.
600 10 Abetz, Otto Friedrich, |d1903-1958 |xFriends and associates.
650  0 Diplomats |zGermany |vBiography.
650  0 Germans |zFrance |zParis |vBiography.
650  0 Nazis |zFrance |zParis |vBiography.
650  0 Authors, French |zFrance |zParis |vBiography.
650  0 Fascism |zFrance |zParis |xHistory |y20th century.
651  0 Paris (France) |xIntellectual life |y20th century.
651  0 Germany |xRelations |zFrance.
651  0 France |xRelations |zGermany.
600 17 Abetz, Otto Friedrich, |d1903-1958. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01752727
648  7 1900-1999 |2fast
655  7 Biographies. |2lcgft
852 0   |bstacks |hDD247.A24 |iM38 2016