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This dissertation explores postwar French public discourse on the Holocaust during a series of controversial events: the Six-Day War, the release of Marcel Ophuls''" The Sorrow and the Pity," an interview in L''Express with former Vichy minister Darquier de Pellepoix, the broadcast of the American television film" Holocaust," the 1980 attack on the synagogue of rue Copernic, Robert Faurisson''s Holocaust revisionist publications, the trials of Klaus Barbie and Paul Touvier, and widespread accusations in the 1990s that Francois Mitterrand had actively collaborated with the Vichy regime. It argues that Holocaust discourse is constituted by multiple layers of meaning, and that this discourse both informs and is informed by the constantly shifting relationship between Holocaust narratives, changing ethnic and national identities, and demands for historical responsibility. Following Jews''articulation of the Holocaust as …