Varieties of Fascism - Chapter 13 (France)

This is the thirteenth chapter of Varieties of Fascism as written by Professor Eugen Weber. The topic of this chapter is France. Eugen Weber was thoroughly fluent in French, having done much of his post-secondary schooling in the country following the Second World War. This expertise shows in the intricate and broadly covered detail of the various movements found in France, the nascent movements of before World War I, those of the interwar period, and those of the collaborationist movements during the German occupation period of the Second World War.

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In 1964, the world approached the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Eugen Weber, a Romanian born, French-educated, British Veteran, and now American professor, sat down to take in the impact of socialism, fascism, and national socialism on the 20th-century world. Having served with the British during the Second World War, Eugen Weber was no stranger to the violent upheaval these ideologies had, and indeed are having.

In the Narrator's opinion, the compilation of this work is invaluable in a current atmosphere of domestic ideological cleavings. Writing nineteen years after the Second World War, a war which Professor Weber fought in, this work has topical adjacency to the real physical manifestations of such phenomena. Additionally, written in the early sixties, the work does not suffer the estrangement and misdefinition of the terms it seeks to educate on.

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