- John F. Sweets
John F. Sweets is an American historian of modern French history specializing in the
Vichy France era, theFrench Resistance , and occupied France. Sweets earned his Ph.D. fromDuke University in 1972 and has taught at theUniversity of Kansas since that year.Sweets is best known for his book "Choices in Vichy France", which explores popular French attitudes towards the
Vichy government , theFrench Resistance and the German occupation duringWorld War II . Sweets' work argues that, "the vast majority of French were far from collaborationist."His earlier work, "The Politics of Resistance in France, 1940-1944," was the "first account in English of the political evolution within the Resistance that enabled it to overcome internal strife" and form an effective underground movement.
Publications
*"The Politics of Resistance in France, 1940-1944: A History of the Mouvements unis de la Résistance," (Dekalb, 1976)
*"Choices in Vichy France: the French Under Nazi Occupation," (New York, 1986), translated into French as "Clermont-Ferrand à l’heure allemande," (Paris, 1996)
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