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The legacy of Nazi occupation patriotic memory and national recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965 Pieter Lagrou
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lagrou, Pieter
- Series:
- Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Europe.
- Reconstruction (1939-1951).
- Europe--History--1945-.
- Europe.
- Memory.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 1999
- Summary:
- This book analyses how France, Belgium and the Netherlands emerged from the Second World War. Pieter Lagrou offers a genuinely comparative approach, based on extensive archival research. Brilliantly researched and fluently written, this book will be of central interest to all scholars and students of twentieth-century European history
- Contents:
- 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
- Pétain'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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-322) and index
- Print version record
- Other Format:
- Print version Lagrou, Pieter. Legacy of Nazi occupation
- ISBN:
- 0511019688
- 9780511019685
- 0521651808
- 9780521651806
- 0511048114
- 9780511048111
- 0511032889
- 9780511032882
- 9780511497087
- 0511497083
- 0511117698
- 9780511117695
- 1280154497
- 9781280154492
- 661015449X
- 9786610154494
- 9780521041478
- 0521041473
- OCLC:
- 51296872
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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