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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817141503321

Autore

Lagrou Pieter

Titolo

The legacy of Nazi occupation : patriotic memory and national recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965 / / Pieter Lagrou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-107-11723-2

0-521-04147-3

0-511-15636-7

0-511-32541-X

0-511-49708-3

1-280-15449-7

0-511-11769-8

0-511-04811-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; ; 8

Disciplina

940.55

Soggetti

Reconstruction (1939-1951) - Europe

Memory

Europe History 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Appropriating victory and re-establishing the state -- Heroes of a nation : Belgium and France -- A nation of heroes : the Netherlands -- Displaced populations -- The challenge to the post-war state : Belgium and the Netherlands -- PeĢtain's exiles and De Gaulle's deportees -- Labour and total war -- Moral panic : "the soap, the suit and above all the Bible" -- Patriotic scrutiny -- "Deportation" : the defence of the labour conscripts -- Plural persecutions -- National martyrdom -- Patriotic memories and the genocide -- Remembering the war and legitimising the post-war international order.

Sommario/riassunto

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.