The Politics of Retribution in Europe : : World War II and Its Aftermath / / István Deák, Jan Gross, Tony Judt.

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 be...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface / Judt, Tony
  • PART I: PRELIMINARIES
  • Introduction / Deák, István
  • Themes for a Social History of War Experience and Collaboration / Gross, Jan T.
  • PART II: THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR
  • A Fatal Compromise? The Debate over Collaboration and Resistance in Hungary / Deák, István
  • A Tangled Web: Confronting Stereotypes Concerning Relations between Poles, Germans, Jews, and Communists / Gross, Jan T.
  • PART III: TRIALS AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY
  • Justice in Postwar Belgium: Popular Passions and Political Realities / Conway, Martin
  • The Criminal Justice System As a Political Actor in Regime Transitions: The Case of Belgium, 1944-50 / Huyse, Luc
  • "Restoration of Confidence": The Purge of Local Government in the Netherlands As a Problem of Postwar Reconstruction / Romijn, Peter
  • Postwar Justice in France: Bordeaux 1953 / Farmer, Sarah
  • The Cold War and the Appropriation of Memory: Greece after Liberation / Mazower, Mark
  • The People's Courts and Revolutionary Justice in Hungary, 1945-46 / Karsai, László
  • The Politics of Retribution: The Trial of Jozef Tiso in the Czechoslovak Environment / Abrams, Bradley
  • PART IV: EPILOGUE
  • The Past Is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Postwar Europe / Judt, Tony
  • Contributors
  • Index