The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965

TitleThe Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2000
AuthorsPieter Lagrou
Series TitleStudies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
Number of Pages327
PublisherCambridge University Press
CityCambridge, U.K
ISBN Number0-521-65180-8
Call NumberD809.E8 L44 2000
Abstract

"This volume 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. This book will be of central interest to all scholars and students of twentieth-century European history."--Jacket.

Short TitleThe Legacy of Nazi Occupation