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Golsan discusses power and danger of memory
By
Axel Hufford
| March 5, 2013
Jin Lee / The Dartmouth Staff Texas A&M University professor Richard Golsan used contemporary France's "national obsession" with the Vichy regime, which helped the Nazis commit war crimes during World War II, to comment on the power and corruptibility of memory in a lecture held in Sanborn Library on Monday. French police and Nazi soldiers under Vichy rule rounded up over 75,000 Jews, the vast majority of whom would be systematically exterminated in the Holocaust. Golsan's lecture focused on France's post-millenial preoccupation with the crimes of the Vichy regime.