Living with the Enemy: German Occupation, Collaboration and Justice in the Western Pyrenees, 1940-1948

ISBN-13: 9781107178205 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 382 str.

Sandra Ott

Opis

This book reconstructs the trials and tribulations of the colorful individuals accused of collaboration with the Germans in southwestern France.

Recenzje

'… offer[s] readers a view of the intersection of human experiences from which to best advance our understanding of how the petty politics of personal struggle can and have stained the historical record.' Nicole Dombrowski Risser, The American Historical Review

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. The Context: 1. Pyrenean borderlands: setting and cultures; 2. World wars, civil war, and German occupation; 3. Violence and the process of liberation; 4. The purge, the judiciary, and the court of justice; Part II. The Narratives and the Trials: 5. A black market bicycle vendor; 6. A teenaged informer and the tragedy of Portet; 7. A pro-German Basque farmer; 8. The changing face of the enemy; 9. A town hall secretary and a Vichy police commissioner; 10. Friendship with a Nazi officer; 11. A Basque double agent and a Nazi officer; 12. A teenaged volunteer in the Waffen-SS; 13. Sex, vengeance, and duplicity: the strange case of Dr Vérité; Part III. Conclusions.