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 | | The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) by Pieter Lagrou ISBN-10: 9780521651806 ISBN-10: 0-521-65180-8 ISBN-13: 9780521651806 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-65180-6 Hardcover 1999-02-13 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book offers a comparative analysis of how postwar society dealt with the disruptive legacy of Nazi occupation in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. It examines the postwar trajectories of resistance fighters, labor conscripts employed in Nazi Germany and victims of Nazi persecution and genocide. Their experiences were often incompatible with the patriotic narratives, aimed at restoring national pride and with the international context, requiring reconciliation with West Germany. In the conflict between memories of the war and the contingencies of the postwar political agenda lies a key to understanding European history since 1945. | ||
Book Description This volume, in Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, examines how France, Belgium and the Netherlands emerged from the military collapse and humiliating occupation they suffered during the Second World War. Pieter Lagrou offers a genuinely comparative approach, based on extensive archival research in three countries; he analyses the way in which post-war societies dealt with the disruptive legacy of Nazi occupation. Brilliantly researched and fluently written, this book will be of central interest to all scholars and students of twentieth-century European history. | ||
Download 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. | ||