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And an excellent take on this, or at least on the period that led up to it, and the views of those participants later in 1969 when the film was made, is "The Sorrow and the Pity" about the history of France and French society in World War 2. The only guy who acted like a swaggering victor in the 1969 follow-up interview was actually the former SS officer who after the war returned to his prosperous rural bourgois (or burger) life in a rural town and who is shown with his family at one of his sons' weddings holding forth with the stub of a cigar stuck in his mouth and his discrete little Wehrmacht veteran pins on his lapel. Also of interest is the veteran of the French unit that fought on the Russian Front (Vichy's "Charlemagne Legion"), a guy who before the war had been a young supporter of the fascist Action Francais but who by 1969 was living in his opulent palatial 18th Century house decked out as a trendy forty something Hugh Hefner type ruminating on the senselessness of so much of it. "So at this point you're saying your basically a liberal?" the interviewer asks him to which he responds in a pensive manner, ". . . you know, I think that's right"[!]. His one big issue having been when Le Marachal (Petain) refused to see him and his buddies late in the war in 1945 to lodge a protest against having to now actually wear German uniforms. This in the wake of the fall of East Prussia which he ruminates reminded him with great irony of the scenes in France in June 1940, but only worse. It's available on netflix. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
