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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lagrou, Pieter, author.

Series:

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

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Europe.

Reconstruction (1939-1951).

Memory.

Europe--History--1945-.

Europe.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

OCLC:

70744328