The Vichy Syndrome: the Political Problems of the Collaborationist Past Rethinking

Abstract

The given article is devoted to processes and results of rethinking by the French society of the collaboration regime that dominated in France during the Second World War. The heritage of the given period has had strong influence on post-war development of France and also on its position in post-war world. The author examines a course and specificity of overcoming the past in a context of historical events.