Henry Rousso

Henry Rousso (born 1954 in Cairo ) is a French historian and a specialist in the history of the 20th century, especially World War II and the Nazi occupation in France. He currently teaches at the Université Paris X Nanterre and the Paris Institut d' histoire du temps présent ( IHTP ) and is a member of several scientific advisory boards, including in the concentration camp Buchenwald and the Paris Mémorial de la Shoah.

He became famous mainly because of its publications Un château en Allemagne: Sigmaringen, 1944-1945 over the last years of the Vichy regime in Sigmaringen and Le Syndrome de Vichy ( Vichy Syndrome ) on the difficulties of the French post-war society, present fairly the to acquire occupation, in particular the French complicity in persecution and deportation of Jews. He themed it, inter alia, the elevation of the importance of the French Resistance, by Gaullists and Communists, for which he coined the term résistancialisme. He also coined the term Negationism ( Négationnisme ). In the summer semester 2009 Henry Rousso was a visiting professor at Jena Center 20th Century History at the University of Jena.

Writings

• France and the " dark years ": The Vichy regime in the past and present. Wallenstein -Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3835307568.
• Vichy: France under German occupation from 1940 to 1944. C. H. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3406584541.