Annie Lacroix-Riz[1] (born 1947) is a French academic Marxist historian specializing in France's relations with Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s, as well as World War II collaboration.

[8][9][10] In her early works examining post-war reconstruction of France, Lacroix-Riz studied labor union tensions, investigating issues within the General Confederation of Labour (French: Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT),[11][12] the role of French minister Ambroise Croizat on social labor reforms,[13] and American trade unionist Irving Brown’s role in France.

Subsequent works further probe American influence in Europe (for example in Sweden)[14] and in the French colonies of North Africa[15][16] and put into question the motives of the Marshall Plan.

[17][18][19][20][21] One of her primary theses is that profit-driven complicity of French industrial and financial institutions with Nazi Germany contributed to France's 1940 defeat,[22][23][24][25][26][27]paving the path to U.S ascendancy in Europe.

[24][17] Lacroix-Riz’s writings on the 1930s and WWII, particularly regarding financial and industrial interests, terrorist group La Cagoule, her views on Synarchism and Holodomor[28] have sparked mixed critical responses.