The legacy of Nazi occupation : patriotic memory and national recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965 /
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 o...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of 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.
