French Historians in gray zone: remembrances of the war

• Autor(a) principal: Rollemberg, Denise
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Vainfas, Ronaldo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de História (São Paulo)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/121976
• topic: Memória; Resistência francesa; Nova História; Ocupação alemã da França; Vichy; Zona cinzenta; Memory; French Resistance; New History; German-occupied France; Vichy; Gray zone

This article analyzes the remembrances of some French historians who lived in German-occupied France and, in the post-1945, built their careers, especially in the so-called New French History. The survey is based on Ego history essays, autobiographies and interviews that the selected authors produced from the late 1980s, that means, almost 40 years after the end of the war. The study aims to demonstrate, first, that these remembrances are inserted, in one way or another, in the memory built in France in the post-war period, influenced by the Resistance mith that the French historiographical revisionism has deconstructed since the 1970s. Finally, the article argues that most of the selected authors, when young, lived in what Pierre Laborie has called gray zone, inspired by the work of Primo Levi.