Adolf Hitler
Aftermath of World War II
Allied-occupied Germany
Allies of World War II
Anschluss
Anti-capitalism
Anti-communism
Anti-fascism
Anti-Jewish laws
Anti-Soviet agitation
Antisemitism (authors)
Banditry
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Cold War
Collective punishment
Communism
Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism
Consequences of War
Counter-revolutionary
Czechoslovakia
Deportation
Divide and rule
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France-Germany relations
German re-armament
Germans
Gestapo
Historikerstreit
Impeachment
Imperial Ambitions
Jews
Jozef Tiso
Kielce pogrom
Left-wing politics
Miklos Horthy
Military occupation
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Nazi Germany
Nazi Party
Nazism
Nemesis at Potsdam
Nuremberg trials
Operation Barbarossa
Persecution
Pogrom
Polish government-in-exile
Polish underground press
Polish Underground State
Political crime
Political radicalism
Political repression
Political revolution
Political violence
Politique
Power politics
Prosecutor
Radical right (United States)
Reprisal
Responsibility for the Holocaust
Slovakia
Soviet Union
Stalinism
The Holocaust in Poland
Total war
Velvet Revolution
War
War crime
War economy
War of aggression
Warfare
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
World War II
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- ISBN 9780691009544
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The presentation of Europe's immediate historical past has quite dramatically changed. Conventional depictions of occupation and collaboration in World War II, of wartime resistance and post-war renewal, provided the familiar backdrop against which the chronicle of post-war Europe has mostly been told. Within these often ritualistic presentations, it was possible to conceal the fact that not only were the majority of people in Hitler's Europe not resistance fighters but millions actively co-operated with and many millions more rather easily accommodated to Nazi rule. Moreover, after the war, those who judged former collaborators were sometimes themselves former collaborators. Many people became innocent victims of retribution, while others--among them notorious war criminals--escaped punishment. Nonetheless, the process of retribution was not useless but rather a historically unique effort to purify the continent of the many sins Europeans had committed.
This book sheds light on the collective amnesia that overtook European governments and peoples regarding their own responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity--an amnesia that has only recently begun to dissipate as a result of often painful searching across the continent. In inspiring essays, a group of internationally renowned scholars unravels the moral and political choices facing European governments in the war's aftermath: how to punish the guilty, how to decide who was guilty of what, how to convert often unspeakable and conflicted war experiences and memories into serviceable, even uplifting accounts of national history. In short, these scholars explore how the drama of the immediate past was (and was not) successfully "overcome." Through their comparative and transnational emphasis, they also illuminate the division between eastern and western Europe, locating its origins both in the war and in post-war domestic and international affairs. Here, as in their discussion of collaborators' trials, the authors lay bare the roots of the many unresolved and painful memories clouding present-day Europe.
Contributors are Brad Abrams, Martin Conway, Sarah Farmer, Luc Huyse, Laszlo Karsai, Mark Mazower, and Peter Romijn, as well as the editors. Taken separately, their essays are significant contributions to the contemporary history of several European countries. Taken together, they represent an original and pathbreaking account of a formative moment in the shaping of Europe at the dawn of a new millennium.
István Deák is Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of, among other books, Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, l848-1918. Jan T. Gross is Professor of Politics and European Studies at New York University. He is the author of, among other books, Revolution from Abroad: Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia (Princeton). Tony Judt is Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University. His many books include The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, and the French Twentieth Century.
