Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France by Carmen Callil

In Bad Faith, Carmen Callil delivers a searing portrait of Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, the French fascist and Nazi collaborator responsible for sending thousands of Jews to their deaths during the Holocaust. With meticulous research and emotional depth, Callil reconstructs the rise of Darquier—from failed politician to Commissioner for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy regime—and exposes the moral corruption and self-deception that fueled his hatred. Interwoven with her own reflections on loss and history, Bad Faith becomes both an unflinching biography and a haunting meditation on complicity, evil, and the silences that linger after war.