The legacy of Nazi occupation : patriotic memory and national recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965
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The legacy of Nazi occupation : patriotic memory and national recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965
(Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare, 8)
Cambridge University Press, 2000
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  Kumamoto
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  Okinawa
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-322) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume, in Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare series, examines how France, Belgium and the Netherlands emerged from the military collapse and humiliating Nazi occupation they suffered during the Second World War. Rather than traditional armed conflict, the human consequences of Nazi policies were resistance, genocide and labour migration to Germany. Pieter Lagrou offers a genuinely comparative approach to these issues, based on extensive archival research; he underlines the divergence between ambiguous experiences of occupation and the univocal post-war patriotic narratives which followed. His book reveals striking differences in political cultures as well as close convergence in the creation of a common Western European discourse, and uncovers disturbing aspects of the aftermath of the war, including post-war antisemitism and the marginalisation of resistance veterans. Brilliantly researched and fluently written, this book will be of central interest to all scholars and students of twentieth-century European history.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. Troublesome Heroes: The Post-War Treatment of Resistance Veterans: 1. Approaching victory and re-establishing the state
- 2. Heroes of a nation: Belgium and France
- 3. A nation of heroes: the Netherlands
- Part II. Repatriating Displaced Populations from Germany: 4. Displaced populations
- 5. The challenge to the post-war state: Belgium and the Netherlands
- 6. Petain's exiles and De Gaulle's deportees
- Part III. The Legacy of Forced Economic Migration: 7. Labour and total war
- 8. Moral panic: 'the soap, the suit and above all the Bible'
- 9. Patriotic scrutiny
- 10. 'Deportation': the defence of the labour conscripts
- Part IV. Martyrs and Other Victims of Nazi Persecution
- 11. Plural persecutions
- 12. National martyrdom
- 13. Patriotic memories and the genocide
- 14. Remembering the war and legitimising the post-war international order
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
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