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Robert O. Paxton

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Robert O. Paxton, Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, is the author of The Anatomy of Fascism, Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944, Parades and Politics at Vichy, and Vichy France and the Jews.

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