Henry Rousso

Henry Rousso (* 1954 in Cairo ) is a French historian and specialist in the history of the 20th century , especially the Second World War and the occupation period in France .

Life

Rousso is of Jewish descent. He currently teaches at the University of Paris-Nanterre and the Paris Institut d'histoire du temps présent (IHTP) and is a member of numerous scientific advisory boards, including a. in the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial and in the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris .

Rousso was best known for his publications Un château en Allemagne: Sigmaringen, 1944-1945 about the last year of the Vichy regime in Sigmaringen and Le Syndrome de Vichy (the Vichy Syndrome) about the difficulties of French post-war society, an appropriate picture of the Period of occupation, especially the French complicity in the persecution and deportation of Jews. In it he addressed a. a. the exaggeration of the importance of the French resistance by Gaullists and Communists, for whom he coined the term résistancialisme . He also coined the term negationism ( négationnisme ).

In the summer semester of 2009, Henry Rousso was visiting professor at the Jena Center “History of the 20th Century” at the University of Jena .

Jürg Altwegg has called Rousso the "Grail Keeper of Vichy Historiography".

On February 26, 2017, Rousso, who was on his way to a scientific conference in Texas, was detained at Houston Airport for 10 hours by border guards and narrowly escaped deportation. The reason given was the decree imposed by US President Donald Trump shortly after he took office for citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries and “misunderstandings about visa parameters”.

Fonts

• 1987: Le Syndrome de Vichy à nos jours , Le Seuil, coll. "XXe siècle", Paris, ISBN 2-02-009772-9 . (2nd edition 1990: ISBN 2-02-012157-3 )
  • 1991 in engl. Translation: The Vichy Syndrome: History an Memory in France since 1944 , Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1991, ISBN 0-674-93538-1 .
• 1992: Les années noires: Vivre sous l'Occupation
  • German: France and the "dark years": The Vichy regime in the past and present . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0756-8 .
• 1994: La Seconde Guerre mondiale: Guide des sources conservées en France, 1939–1945 . Direction des archives de France, Archives nationales , ISBN 2-86000-235-9 .
• 1994: Vichy, un passé qui ne passe pas (with Éric Conan), ISBN 2-213-59237-3 .
  • greatly expanded 2nd edition 1996, ISBN 2-07-032900-3 .
  • engl. Translation 1998 ( Vichy, An Ever-Present Past ), ISBN 0-87451-795-8 .
• 2007: Le Régime de Vichy . ISBN 978-2-13-054077-9 .
  • Vichy: France under German occupation 1940–1944 . CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58454-1 .
• 2012: La Dernière Catastrophe . Gallimard, ISBN 978-2-07-075972-9 .
• 2013: La Seconde Guerre mondiale expliquée à ma fille , ISBN 978-2-02-104150-7 .
• 2016: Face au Passé. Essais sur la mémoire contemporaine , Paris, Éditions Belin, ISBN 978-2-7011-9763-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Henry Rousso in the catalog of the German National Library
• Henry Rousso's page at the IHTP
• Page by Henry Rousso at the Jena Center History of the 20th Century

Footnotes

1. ↑ FAZ No. 42, February 19, 2015, p. 11.
2. ^ French historian Henry Rousso nearly deported from US. BBC News, February 26, 2017, accessed February 26, 2017 .