‘any good books on this period in English?’
I am just writing about it now James Heartfield
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Well forward the results or link to it.
The years from 1944 to 1949 were pretty interesting all over Europe. From bits and pieces I've read many countries had undergrounds where the strongest factions that emerged were communist or at least the far red spectrum of socialist. The period corresponds to Allied suppression of these political parties to keep them from becoming majorities.
I just watch a very good film called The Army of Shadows about the resistance in France. It was released in 1969 and created a storm, because the lead boss of this chapter was awarded a metal by de Gaulle.
``At the time of its initial release in France, Army of Shadows was not well received or widely seen. In the wake of the events of May 1968, French critics denounced the film for its perceived glorification of Charles de Gaulle.[3] At the time American art-film programmers took their cues from Cahiers du cinéma, which had attacked the film on this basis, and so it was not released in the United States for almost forty years.[1][3] In the mid-1990s Cahiers du cinéma published a reappraisal of the film (and Melville's work in general), leading to its restoration and re-release in 2006.[3]''
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Shadows
I just ordered the Davidson book.
CG