The Legacy of Nazi Occupation

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.

First Sentence

Were the political regimes that followed the downfall of fascism also the product of the struggle against fascism?

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Other Editions

• The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 19451965 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)PaperbackCambridge University Press2007-09-10
• Legacy of Nazi OccupationCambridge University Press1999-01-01
• The legacy of Nazi occupationCambridge University Press1999-01-01
• The Legacy of Nazi OccupationeBookCambridge University Press2000-01-01
• Legacy of Nazi OccupationCambridge University Press2009-01-01