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Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945

Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945

Kitson, Simon

Hardcover

Series: History of Warfare (Brill), Book 95

General European HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004248358
ISBN13: 9789004248359
Publisher: Brill
Published: May 1 2014
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Simon Kitson's Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945 offers a 'history from below' analysis of the attitude of the Marseille Police between the Popular Front and the Liberation of France. Kitson highlights the specificities of policing France's largest port: clientelism, corruption, a floating population and high levels of criminality, including organised crime. But he also demonstrates why many of his conclusions about Police attitude can be generalised to other parts of France and, in so doing, challenges many of the assumptions of the existing historiography. Although they zealously hunted down Jews and communists, the Police were not as reliable for the Vichy government as is commonly assumed and were, undoubtedly, far more involved in Resistance than most sectors of society.

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