{"id":2977,"date":"2015-12-30T19:38:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T19:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2015-12-30T19:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T19:38:59","slug":"this-nazi-era-archive-has-brought-people-to-tears-now-it-is-open-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2015\/12\/30\/this-nazi-era-archive-has-brought-people-to-tears-now-it-is-open-to-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"This Nazi-era archive has brought people to tears. Now, it is open to the public."},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Oct. 24, 1940 file photo shows Adolf Hitler, right, shaking hands with Head of State of Vichy France Marshall Philippe Petain in occupied France. (AP Photo, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It has been more than 70 years since the end of the war, but emotions have been running high in France since the government announced it would open the archives of the so-called Vichy regime that\u00a0collaborated with Nazi Germany. The files had been scheduled for release in five years at the earliest. But officials\u00a0announced on\u00a0Sunday\u00a0that the archives would be open to the public beginning\u00a0Monday.<\/p>\n

Few major revelations are expected, according to French radio station\u00a0RFI, because authorities and researchers had already\u00a0been able to read\u00a0some of the documents. But\u00a0the Vichy regime remains an extremely sensitive part of French history. In particular, how many French supported the Vichy regime has remained a controversial issue that\u00a0has interfered with France’s understanding of itself as a nation that staunchly and unitedly opposed the Nazis.<\/p>\n

Given that\u00a0historians and some others have had access to the archives\u00a0for years,\u00a0it is unlikely that the French will have to rewrite parts of their history. However, the impact on individuals could be enormous.<\/p>\n

“I’ve seen people leaving the archives in tears…\u00a0Because they’d found out the details of an arrest, an execution, a betrayal, for example. Some came with the idea that their grandfather had been in the resistance but discovered that was not exactly true,”\u00a0RFI and the French newspaper\u00a0Le Figaro\u00a0quoted historian Jean-Marc Berliere as saying.<\/p>\n

Authorities will theoretically still be able to prevent the public from viewing some documents that\u00a0are considered of importance to the country’s national security.<\/p>\n

In more than\u00a0200,000 documents, the Vichy archives provide insights into court trials, the regime’s battle\u00a0against resistance fighters, details of the surveillance apparatus as well as denunciations by French citizens — the latter being perhaps the most shocking\u00a0part of the archives.<\/p>\n

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It has been more than 70 years since the end of the war, but emotions have been running high in France since the government announced it would open the archives of the so-called Vichy regime that\u00a0collaborated with Nazi Germany. The files had been scheduled for release in five years at the earliest. But officials\u00a0announced on\u00a0Sunday\u00a0that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}