Collaboration with the Nazis: Public Discourse After the Holocaust

ISBN-13: 9780415564410 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 320 str.

Roni Stauber

Opis

This book examines the changes in representing collaboration, especially in the destruction of European Jewry, in the public discourse and the historiography of various countries in Europe. In particular it shows how representations and responses have been conditioned by national and political trends and constraints. Drawing comparisons between five European countries - Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia -- the analysis focuses primarily on similarities and differences in the attitudes of society, how collaboration took place, and the post-war response. As historical background to the issues of post-war collective memory and public discourse, it includes references to and short descriptions of the major manifestations of collaboration, chiefly in regard to the Jews, in each of these countries during the war.

This book examines the changes in representing collaboration, especially in the destruction of European Jewry, in the public discourse and the historiography of various countries In Europe. In particular it shows how representations and responses have been conditioned by national and political trends and constraints. The coverage is comprehensive with each chapter covering a particular country and how collaboration took place as well as the post-war response. The chapters are organised into sections according to the geo-political circumstances of the nations concerned during the war. The result is a genuinely comparative collection that provides a comprehensive study of collaboration in the Holocaust and its aftermath.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: Occupied Countries: The Communist Bloc  2. Where the Past is Never Past: Holocaust Memory in Post-Communist Poland  3. Collaboration in Ukraine during the Holocaust: Aspects of Historiography and Research  4. Popular Collaboration in the Baltic States: Between Evasion and Facing a Burdensome Past  Part 2: Occupied Countries: The Western World  5. Failures and Mistakes: Images of Collaboration in Postwar Dutch Society  6. Turning a Blind Eye: Aspects of Holocaust Memory in Belgium, 1945-2005  7. Between Tradition and New Departure: The Dilemmas of Collaboration in Denmark  8. Collaboration in the Deportation of Norway’s Jews: Challenging Views and Representations  9. Strategies of Evasion: Avoiding the Issue of Collaboration and Indifference during the Holocaust in Greece  Part 3: Germany’s Allies  10. Collaboration and Collaborators in Vichy France: An Unfinished Debate  11. Holocaust and Collaboration in Slovakia in the Postwar Discourse  12. Oblivion and Denial in the Italian Postwar Resistance Ethos  13. Hungary: Continuing Trials of War and Memory  14. Romania’s Sinuous Road to Facing Collaboration

O autorze

Roni Stauber is Schusterman Visiting Professor in Israeli Studies at Rutgers University and Senior Research Fellow at the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Rascism and Anti-Semitism at Tel Aviv University.