The trials of partisans : justice and memory in the aftermath of World War II ; I processi ai résistants : giustizia e memoria nella Francia del secondo dopoguerra ; Les procès de résistants : justice et mémoire dans la France du deuxième après-guerre

The thesis proposes to question the legal proceedings run by the French judiciary in the aftermath of World war two - from 1945 to the mid-1950s - against former Resistance fighters for crimes committed between 1944 and 1 June 1946, the legal date of the cessation of hostilities. The thesis is structured in four main thematic chapters. Going beyond the caesura represented by the end of the Second World War, the thesis examines a little-known aspect of what happened after the end of the war of liberation, involving some of its protagonists. From the beginning, the Resistance represented a complex “memory issue"; this study shows how the trials of resistance fighters fit into the broader framework of the difficult construction of the memory of the war years. Indeed, the trials of resistance fighters have constituted a terrain of political confrontation and have been instrumentalized. Moreover, the thesis fits into the historiographical debate around the category of transitional justice, completing a picture that was limited to the study of purges. It is a new look at the period of transition that allows us to observe, in a complete and complex way, the passage through different forms of justice with continuities and ruptures. In this sense, the study of the trials brings to light a series of dynamics linked not only to the actors directly involved, but also to society in general. ; La tesi si propone di analizzare i procedimenti giudiziari avviati dalla magistratura francese nel dopoguerra - dal 1945 alla metà degli anni Cinquanta – a carico di ex partigiani per crimini commessi tra il 1944 e il 1° giugno 1946, data legale della cessazione delle ostilità. La tesi è strutturata in quattro capitoli tematici principali. Andando oltre la cesura rappresentata dalla fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, la tesi esamina un aspetto poco conosciuto di quanto accaduto dopo la fine della guerra di liberazione, coinvolgendo alcuni dei suoi protagonisti. Fin dall'inizio, la Resistenza ha rappresentato una complessa "questione ...