Robert Paxton

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Robert Paxton (b 1932) is an American historian specializing in Vichy France and Europe during the World War II era. Paxton is best known for his 1972 book "Vichy France, Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944," in which he argued that Vichy collaboration with Germany was a voluntary program entered into by the Vichy government, not forced upon it by German pressure. This book is considered one of the keystone works on France during the World War II era.

Paxton is emeritus professor at Columbia University.

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• Robert O. Paxton, “Parades and politics at Vichy,” 1966.
• Robert O. Paxton, “Vichy France, Old Guard and new Order, 1940-1944,” 1972.
• Robert O. Paxton and Michael Marrus, Vichy France and the Jews, 1981.
• Robert O. Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism”