Jean-Pierre Azéma

Jean -Pierre Azéma ( born 1937 ) is a French historian specializing in the time of the German occupation of France in World War II, the Resistance and Collaboration in the Vichy regime.

Azéma is a student of René Remond. He was a professor at the Lycée Henri- IV, and taught at the Institut d' études politiques de Paris. Azéma was in the 1960s one of the first historians in France, which dealt with the Vichy regime.

In addition, he was a research consultant at the Institute François- Mitterrand. It is close to the Socialists and supported Ségolène Royal.

Azéma is one of the authors of the film L' Oeil de Vichy (The Eye of Vichy) by Claude Chabrol, a consultant for the TV series Un village francais ( France 3) and was one of the historians who worked in the trial of Maurice Papon as a reviewer were.

He is the son of the poet Jean -Henri Azéma, who was condemned as a collaborator in the absence and lived in Argentina in exile.

Writings

• With Michel Winock: Les Communards, Éd. du Seuil, 1964
• With Michel Winock: La IIIe République, Calmann - Lévy, 1970, 1991
• La Collaboration: 1940-1944, Press Universitaire de France (PUF ), 1975
• De Munich à la Libération: 1938-1944, Ed. du Seuil in 1979, 2002 ( his magnum opus ) English Translation: From Munich to the liberation 1938-1944, Cambridge University Press, 1985 ( The Cambridge History of Modern France )