1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459832803321

Autore

Deák István

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, CO : , : Westview Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-429-96242-8

0-429-49387-8

0-8133-4790-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/4

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Collaborationists - Europe

World War, 1939-1945 - Occupied territories

World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - Europe

World War, 1939-1945 - Reparations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents ; Foreword by Norman M. Naimark; Preface ; Introduction ; 1. From Brutality to International Conventions to Renewed Brutality: Foreign Occupations in European History ; 2. Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland: The First German Conquests ; A Perfect Union ; Without Firing a Shot ; To the Last Bullet ; 3. Defeat and Submission: Europe's Honeymoon with Hitler, 1939-1941; Toward a ""Great Germanic"" Brotherhood ; The Belgians and the French Under German Rule ; Cozy Islanders ; The Pitfalls of Collaboration in the Balkans

4. The Invasion of the Soviet Union and East European Collaboration Caught Between Two Giants ; The Worst Place to Be: Ukraine During the War ; Toward a Turning Point in the Conflict; 5. Germany's Many Allies: A Blessing or a Curse? ; The Allies of Germany and the ""Final Solution"" ; Mutual Jealousies and Suspicions ; Ethnic Cleansing ; Hitler's ""Strongman"" Allies ; 6. The Beginnings of German Decline: The Growth and Many Dilemmas of the Resistance Movements ; Life and Death in the Resistance ; The Resistance Press and Radio ; The Special



Operations Executive

Resistance in the Countries Expecting British and American Liberation Helping Jews ; 7. Resistance and Civil War in Eastern, Southern, and Southeastern Europe ; The Last European Tragedy ; Poland: An Extraordinary Case ; Polish and Jewish Resistance: A Difficult Relationship ; Resistance in the German-Occupied Parts of the Soviet Union ; Resistance and Chaos in the Balkans ; The Gorgopotamos Saga ; Slovakia and Transylvania ; 8. Freedom Fighters or Terrorists? Case Studies of Resistance and Reprisal ; The Via Rasella and the Ardeatine Cave ; The Oradour Tragedy

Revenge and Ethnic Cleansing at Novi Sad 9. The End of the War, the Apparent Triumph of the Resistance Movements, and the First Retributions ; The End in Germany ; The Legacy of the German Resistance ; The End in the East ; 10. Purging Hitler's Europe ; The Road to Nuremberg and to the National Court Trials ; Justice and Injustice at Nuremberg ; Justice and Injustice in the National Courts of Justice ; 11. The Long Aftermath of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution ; The Cold War and the Suspension of Retributions ; Renewed Attempts at Reprisals ; Epilogue

Suggestions for Further Study Index ; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Deak, a foremost expert on late 20th Century Europe, describes the often inter-related phenomena of resistance, collaboration,  retribution and accommodation in World War II Europe.