Vichy/ Free France and Lead up
" 44 Songs-Marches for the Youth of France " is a collection of sheet music and lyrics published by Éditions Salabert in 1942. This booklet of 62 to 64 pages brings together popular songs and hymns, often used at the time by youth movements and scouting associations
Price: $190.00
Broadside from the Anti-Bolshevik Committee in Paris titled Vingt Ans de Destructions “Communistes”.
NOTE: The broadside "Vingt Ans de Destructions “Communistes”" was a collaborationist propaganda tract published by the Comité d'Action Antibolchévique (Anti-Bolshevik Action Committee) in Paris during July 1941. It was used to promote a mass rally held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver on July 18, 1941, to incite fear of the Soviet Union. The broadside was printed exactly one month after Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa), a moment when Vichy France and its collaborationist factions aggressively stepped up their anti-communist propaganda efforts. "Vingt Ans de Destructions" (Twenty Years of Destruction) was a reference to the twentieth anniversary of the Bolshevik rise to power (1917–1937/1941). It was a common propaganda trope used by European fascist organizations to equate the USSR and domestic communist parties with chaos and the destruction of European civilization.
The Anti-Bolshevik Action Committee (Comité d'Action Antibolchévique or CAA) was founded in 1941 by Paul Chack, a pro-fascist, anglophobic writer who openly collaborated with the occupying German forces and the Vichy regime.
Price: $120.00
Two issues of Voix Francaises Familiales. April and October 1944. No USA library holds this.
NOTE: " French Voices "is a Catholic and collaborationist newspaper that was published between 1941 and 1944. The monthly supplement entitled " French Family Voices " was a 4-page insert that served as a propaganda tool to spread the Vichy regime's ideology regarding family and traditional values.
Price: $250.00
