Philippe Burrin

Philippe Burrin (born March 16, 1952, in Chamoson, Switzerland) is a historian whose research focuses on ideologies, movements and political parties in Europe during the interwar period.

[2][3] In his book "La dérive fasciste, Doriot, Déat, Bergery, 1933-1945," Burrin sought to trace the intellectual, political and ideological itinerary of Jacques Doriot, Marcel Déat and Gaston Bergery, left-wing French politicians whose views shifted from anti-fascism to embracing far-right movements and collaborating with the Vichy regime.

[4][5] Burrin deepened this thesis in "La France à l'heure allemande 1940-1944," which analyzed how the French reacted and behaved during the German occupation and toward the occupier.

[7] Burrin is interested in forms of "accommodation" with the occupier, which he articulates by looking at the behavior of public figures and politicians, the clergy, employers, intellectuals, artists and collaborators.

Like Jean-Pierre Azéma, Henri Amouroux, Marc-Olivier Baruch, Jean Lacouture, Robert O. Paxton and René Rémond, Burrin testified as an expert at the trial of Maurice Papon in Bordeaux in 1997.