French press reaction to Hitler's first two years in power

French Press Reactions to Hitler's First Two Years in Power In French Fascism: the Second Wave, 1933-1939, Soucy argued that one of the man reasons why fascism did not succeed in France to the extent that it did in Germany was because of the negative reaction which many French conservatives had to Hitler's repression of dissident German conservatives and Catholics in 1933 and 1934. This article goes beyond the book by providing documentation for this argument. It also casts further doubt on the view of Rene Remond and a number other historians that French conservatism was largely `immune' to fascism in the 1930s due to France's longstanding democratic traditions and that French fascism owed more to the `Jacobin' and `socialist' lefts than to the French right.