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Title

Europe on trial : the story of collaboration, resistance, and retribution during World War II / István Deák, Columbia University ; foreword by Norman Naimark, Stanford University.

Author

Deák, István

Publication

Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2015.

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Description

xxiii, 257 pages; 23 cm

Summary

In Europe on Trial, acclaimed historian Istvan Deak presents the comparative history of collaboration, retribution, and resistance during World War II. Deak explores these three themes through the Western and Eastern European countries that suffered at the hands of German military occupation. The occupied countries had to face the question of whether to cooperate with their German occupiers, try to survive the war without any political involvement, or risk their lives by opposing the Nazis. Deak delves deep into the decisions that various countries and individuals made during this critical time. Following the brutal war, Deak discusses the purging of the ancient regime through lynching, acts of private vengeance, denunciation, firings, forced retirements, deprivation of citizens' rights, expulsions, mass deportations, arbitrary internment, and judicial proceedings including the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal from 1945-1946, which judged the principal German war criminals. Europe on Trial helps us to understand the many moral consequences both during and immediately following World War II.

Subject

• World War, 1939-1945 > Collaborationists > Europe
• World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Europe
• World War, 1939-1945 > Occupied territories
• World War, 1939-1945 > Reparations
• Kollaboration
• Widerstand
• Vergeltung
• Weltkrieg
• Europa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From brutality to international conventions to renewed brutality: foreign occupations in European history -- Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland: the first German conquests -- Defeat and submission: Europe's honeymoon with Hitler, 1939-1941 -- The invasion of the Soviet Union and east European collaboration -- Germany's many allies: a blessing or a curse? -- The beginnings of German decline: the growth and many dilemmas of the resistance movements -- Resistance and civil war in eastern, southern, and southeastern Europe -- Freedom fighters or terrorists: case studies of resistance and reprisal -- The end of the war, the apparent triumph of the resistance movements, and the first retributions -- Purging Hitler's Europe -- The long aftermath of collaboration, resistance, and retribution.

ISBN

• 9780813347899 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813347890 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780813347905 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014042285

OCLC

• 881665380
• SCSB-12367204

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library