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"The Philosophers and Churchmen Who Fell for Fascism
Moral lessons from Vichy
France.
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The very reverend François-Louis Auvity was one of several French bishops who threw their weight behind the collaborationist Vichy government during World War II. He wrote sermons and pamphlets pushing the faithful toward cooperation with the Nazis, even to the point of accepting slavery in service of the German war machine.
How did a Catholic bishop end up supporting those who sold his nation’s sovereignty to a sworn enemy? How did he come to collaborate with the immiseration of his own people? How did he work alongside a regime that shipped French Jews to the concentration camps? The story is a complicated but interesting one: It is the story not only of Auvity but of the many who supported the Vichy government during World War II.
In that frothy age in France, there were many forks in the road. A person did not wake up one day and decide to collaborate with the Third Reich. There was a slow, almost imperceptible process of decision whereby someone was led one way or another. Of those who counted themselves faithful Christians, many adapted to Vichy, but many others stood against it in favor of a different idea of France—and a different idea of faith.
It is instructive, however, to consider how individuals who began from similar starting points went two separate ways. Some, like the philosophers Jacques Maritain and Étienne Gilson, saw the wickedness of Vichy for what it was, while others, like Bishop Auvity, compromised themselves morally step by step. How to maintain moral clarity and avoid a blind wandering into wickedness is a question of perennial importance. This age in France can tell us something about it."
https://archive.ph/5XVWb
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