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And Vichy France was about-- it took off the--it cut through this
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sort of intentional forgetting of what had happened,
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to look at collaboration, to look at collaboration.
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Now, Bob Paxton did not have the right to use French documents.
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Why?
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Archival documents, the kind that I use studying earlier periods.
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Why?
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Because there's a fifty-year rule; also, because
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even when he was writing on a guy called Georges Orez
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who was sort of an authoritarian crypto-fascist,
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and who had a lot of influence in the Seine-et-Marne,
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and in the Loire-et-Cher,