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The politics of retribution in Europe : World War II and its aftermath

Title
The politics of retribution in Europe : World War II and its aftermath / edited by István Deák, Jan T. Gross, and Tony Judt.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Deák, István.
  • Gross, Jan Tomasz.
  • Judt, Tony.
Description
xii, 337 pages; 24 cm
Summary
The presentation of Europe's historical past has changed - it was possible to conceal the fact that the majority of people actively co-operated or accommodated Nazi rule. This collection unravells the moral and political choices facing European governments in the aftermath of World War II.
Subject
  • Europa
  • 1939-1945
  • Geschichte 1944-1953
  • Geschichte 1945-1960
  • Geschichte 1945-1965
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Collaborationists > Europe
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Reparations
  • Reconstruction (1939-1951) > Europe
  • 15.70 history of Europe
  • Reconstruction (1939-1951)
  • Collaborationists
  • War reparations
  • Kriegsverbrechen
  • Kriegsverbrecherprozess
  • Vergangenheitsbewältigung
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Tweede Wereldoorlog
  • Collectief geheugen
  • Politieke zuiveringen
  • Bijzondere rechtspleging
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Collaborationists
  • Europe
  • World War II
  • Occupation
  • Collaboration
  • Case-law
  • Resistance
  • Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) > Collaborateurs > Europe
  • Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) > Réparations de guerre
  • Europe
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / István Deák -- Themes for a social history of war experience and collaboration / Jan. T. Gross -- A fatal compromise? The debate over collaboration and resistance in Hungary / István Deák -- A tangled web : confronting stereotypes concerning relations between Poles, Germans, Jews, and Communists / Jan T. Gross -- Justice in postwar Belgium : popular passions and political realities / Martin Conway -- The criminal justice system as a political actor in regime transitions : the case of Belgium, 1944-50 / Luc Huyse -- "Restoration of confidence" : the purge of local government in the Netherlands as a problem of postwar reconstruction / Peter Romijn -- Postwar justice in France : Bordeaux 1953 / Sarah Farmer -- The Cold War and the appropriation of memory : Greece after liberation / Mark Mazower -- The people's courts and revolutionary justice in Hungary, 1945-46 / László Karsai -- The politics of retribution : the trial of Jozef Tiso in the Czechoslovak environment / Bradley Abrams -- The past is another country : myth and memory in postwar Europe / Tony Judt.
ISBN
  • 0691009538
  • 9780691009537
  • 0691009546
  • 9780691009544
LCCN
  • 99069400
  • 9780691009544
OCLC
  • ocm43840165
  • 43840165
  • SCSB-1128078
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library