Creating a Holocaust landscape on the streets of Paris : French agency and the synagogue bombing of October 3, 1941
On October 3, 1941, the French right-wing Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire (MSR) bombed six synagogues and one Jewish prayer house in Paris. The only scholarship addressing this “Nuit Bleue” focuses on the Nazi Security and Police Service, who provided the explosives but neither planned nor executed the attacks. Below, the authors restore memory of the bombing and re-establish French agency and culpability. ...