Too much info and not enough time to do a good job of this, so I apologize if I missed something important.
I could not find any supporting evidence for the assertion that someone promoted a myth that there were more Frenchmen resisting the Nazis than were actually doing so. I did run into some statements asserting it was true.
Most of the material you linked me to supported the proposition that the French have downplayed French complicity with the Nazis. This I do not dispute.
It is pretty much human nature to hide from things you are ashamed of. Certainly we have done it with treatment of the Native Americans, terror bombing during WWII, slavery (pre-Roots vs. post-Roots), Japanese internment, invasion and subjugation of the Phillipines, etc.
A great example is the Turks, who have denied that any genocide of Armenians took place. Their kids would not even have heard of it if it weren't for the fact that the Armenians are still pissed.
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I suppose I asked for it!
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- Denouncing
- The myth of universal resistance
- Can you point me in the direction of this myth you refer to?
- Here are some sources
- Beate Klarsfeld: 'righteous Gentile'
- I suppose I asked for it!
- Here are some sources
- To cut the French a small break...
- Can you point me in the direction of this myth you refer to?
- The myth of universal resistance