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Title: Book Review of "Bad Faith" by Carmen Callil
Source: October issue of Atlantic Monthly
URL Source: [None]
Published: Sep 27, 2006
Author: Benjamin Schwarz
Post Date: 2006-09-27 21:13:57 by Diana
Keywords: France-bashing, Occupation, Anti-Semitism
Views: 150
Comments: 15

BAD FAITH by Carmen Callil (Knopf)

In Germany and the countries it occupied, the Nazis had a knack for dredging up and empowering a host of weaselly charlatans, most of whom were inveterate anti-Semites and not a few of whom were degenerates, pimps, pornographers, thieves, or bully boys. But for their viciously effective patrons, most of this crew would have languished at the bottom of Europe's demimonde. But vaulted to positions of power (at least over the weak), they helped wreak terrible damage.

Louis Darquier, who served from 1942 to 1944 as the commissioner for Jewish affairs in France's collaborating Vichy government, epitomized these effluvia of Nazi rule. A mountebank (he bestowed upon himself a noble title), an improvident sponger constantly on the run from his creditors, a wife-beating womanizer, and a braggart, the gallivanting, monoclied Darquier cut a ridiculous figure even among the rabble of 1930s French far-right anti-Semites.

He had, however, some powerful benefactors even then, including the Nazis, who clandestinely helped fund his Jew-baiting propaganda before the war. After their conquest of France, they elevated him, though they found him an irksome blowhard, and eventually succeeded in foisting him onto the Vichy government, even though Marshal Petain, it's untratradionalist head of state, despised him.

As a functionary Darquier was indolent and ineffective (and one of the very few who managed to put on weight during the war). He hated Jews, but essentially left the tedious work of administerding the Final Solution to France's highly competent civil servants - most infamously Rene Boussquet, Vichy's head of the police, who was later shielded from prosecution by his friend Francois Mitterrand, the French president.

Still, Darquier spearheaded the hateful portrayal of Jews in the media and academe; he also looted Jewish property with abandon and sold certificates of Aryanization to the highest bidder. On his watch France's Jews were forced to wear the yellow star, and 12,884 of them - including 4,051 children - were hunted down in the notorious roundup of July 1942 and sent to internment camps, from which most were dispatched to their deaths at Auschwitz.

After the war he escaped to Spain, where he lived unmolested and unrepentant (he famously told an interviewer that at Auschwitz the Germans had gassed only lice) until his death, in 1980.

Callil, one of Britain's most lauded editors and publishers, came to her subject in a terrible fashion: as a young, unhappy woman, she was treated by a leading Jungian psychiatrist who, in 1970, killed herslef while Callil was under her care. That woman, Callil learned a few years later, was the daughter, whom Darqier and his alcoholic Australian wife had abandoned as an infant in 1930 during one of their low-life sprees, (really good journalism here, quite objective, NOT! - Diana) and who at adolescence had become acquainted with her father's repugnant past.

Callil arrestingly weaves the sad story of Anne Darquier's grungy life, the chaos and plitical passions of the waning years of the Third Republic, and the sleazy intrigue and backbiting of the Vichy regime.


Poster Comment:

The next book review after this one is about a book called, "A Mad, Bad & Dangerous People?" by Boyd Hilton (Oxford), which outlines the supposedly dispicable behavior of the British in the period 1783 - 1846. Here is a portion of it:

"Industrialization blighted the country's North and Midlands; prompted the majority of it's population to shift from the country to putrid, overcrowded and unregulated towns and cities, with their dark, satanic mills; and caused a demographic calamity: a generation was literally stunted, and life expectancy in the industrializing areas dropped to levels unseen since the Black Death"

This long article goes on portraying the English as little more than barbaric animals.

There appears to be a trend lately to demonize all Europeans as being less than human and certainly antisemitic, even those countries who fought the Nazis and suffered and died under their rule. History is being twisted now to portray the situation as All Of Europe vs. The Jews.

It's becoming painfully obvious that as time goes on, the seething resentment against ALL Europeans only grows; it's no longer only the Germans, it's now all of us. And who ever hears of Japan's role in WWII anymore?

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#3. To: Diana (#0)

This long article goes on portraying the English as little more than barbaric animals.

There appears to be a trend lately to demonize all Europeans as being less than human and certainly antisemitic, even those countries who fought the Nazis and suffered and died under their rule. History is being twisted now to portray the situation as All Of Europe vs. The Jews.

There must be a lot of unhappy people who like to digest this stuff.

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#4. To: robin (#3)

There must be a lot of unhappy people who like to digest this stuff.

That's the scary part. They read this stuff then get all worked up and fearful that nazis are going to come crawling out from under their beds to do them in. I have to wonder at times if the Jews realize what harm they cause when they put out such imflamatory articles! What double standards those radicals do have!!

Diana  posted on  2006-09-27   21:38:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Diana (#4)

http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0491/9104027.htm

Check the date on this editorial.

robin  posted on  2006-09-27   22:04:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: robin, Jethro Tull (#10)

Who are these neoconservatives, or the neocons," as both admirers and enemies refer to them? The neoconservative movement was founded in the 1960s by a group of New York-based intellectuals, mostly academics and journalists, many of whom were concerned about the "anti-Israel" drift they detected among the ranks of the New Left and Black leaders who were gaining increasing power in the Democratic Party.

Among the major figures in the movement were former Trotskyites who studied in the '30s and '40s at the then "poor man's Harvard," the City College of New York, a center for socialist activism. They included Irving Kristol, who in the 1950s launched an anti-Soviet CIA front, the International Congress for Cultural Freedom; Norman Podhoretz, the editor of the American Jewish Committee's monthly magazine Commentary, which he turned into a major neoconservative outlet; Podhoretz's wife, Midge Decter, the chairperson of the now-defunct Committee on the Free World; sociologists Nathan Glazer and Daniel Bell; and Democratic Party pamphleteer Ben Wattenberg.

And this was written in 1991.

I think it's safe to say America does not rule America anymore. We are so screwed. Well soon it will be time to attack Iran and declare martial law here at home, and time to declare war on "anti- semitic" domestic terrorists who will most likely be put in slave labor camps by the millions just like in the good old days of the Soviet gulags.

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