Editing French Resistance (section)

===Historical analysis===
During this period, and particularly after de Gaulle's return to power in 1958,{{Sfn|Jackson|2003|p=603}} the [[collective memory]] of "''[[Résistancialisme]]''" tended toward a highly resistant France opposed to the collaboration of the [[Vichy France|Vichy régime]].{{Sfn|Weitz|1995|p=305}} This period ended when the aftermath of the [[May 1968 events in France|events of May 1968]], which had divided French society between the conservative "war generation" and the younger, more liberal students and workers,{{Sfn|Mendras|Cole|1991|p=226}} led many to question the Resistance ideals promulgated by the official history.{{Sfn|Jackson|2003|p=613}}

In coming to terms with the events of the occupation, several attitudes have emerged in France, in an evolution the historian [[Henry Rousso]] has called the "[[Vichy syndrome]]".{{Sfn|Jackson|2003|p=646}} The questioning of France's past had become a national obsession by the 1980s,{{Sfn|Jackson|2003|p=614}} fueled by the highly publicized trials of war criminals such as [[Paul Touvier]] and [[Maurice Papon]].{{Sfn|Jackson|2003|pp=615–618}}Although the occupation is often still a sensitive subject in the early 21st century,{{Sfn|Davies|2000|p=613}} contrary to some interpretations the French as a whole have acknowledged their past and no longer deny their conduct during the war.{{Sfn|Suleiman|2006|p=36}}

After the war, the influential [[French Communist Party]] (PCF) projected itself as ''"Le Parti des Fusillés"'' (The Party of Those Shot), in recognition of the thousands of communists executed for their Resistance activities.{{Sfn|Marshall|2001|p=69}}{{Sfn|Weitz|1995|p=98}}{{Sfn|Godin|Chafer|2004|p=56}} The number of communists killed was in reality considerably less than the Party's figure of 75,000. It is now estimated that close to 30,000 Frenchmen of all political movements combined were shot,{{Sfn|Christofferson|Christofferson|2006|p=156}}{{Sfn|Jackson|2003|p=601}}{{Sfn|Christofferson|Christofferson|2006|p=127}} of whom only a few thousand were communists.{{Sfn|Christofferson|Christofferson|2006|p=156}} Others were deported, though, many of which died in concentration camps.

The Vichy régime's prejudicial policies had discredited traditional conservatism in France by the end of the war,{{Sfn|Furtado|1992|p=157}} but following the liberation many former ''Pétainistes'' became critical of the official ''résistancialisme'', using expressions such as "''le mythe de la Résistance''" (the myth of the Resistance),{{Sfn|Laffont|2006|p=1017}} one of them even concluding, "The 'Gaullist' régime is therefore built on a fundamental lie."<ref name="Pétainistes">Quoted in Kedward, Wood (1995), p. 218</ref>