Complicated Complicity : European Collaboration with Nazi Germany During World War II

Complicated Complicity is about the forms taken, motives and spectrum of actions of European collaboration with the Nazis. State authorities, local military organizations and individual players in different countries and areas including France, Scandinavia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Greece, Italy, Portugal and the countries of the former Yugoslavia are discussed in the context of the history of World War II, the history of occupation and everyday life and as an essential influencing factor in the Holocaust.New forms of right-wing populism, nationalism and growing intolerance of Jewish fellow citizens and minorities have made such historically sensitive studies considerably more difficult in many countries today. In this time of increasing historical revisionism in Europe, such elucidating discourse is particularly relevant. Genre: Historians with a focus on Nazi Germany, politicians. Contemporary history until 1945 Foreword by the Editors Contents Part I Western Countries between Collaboration, Neutrality and Resistance Considerate Collaborationism: If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them France between Collaboration and Resistance Aspects of Collaboration in Central Europe: The Cases of Poland and Hungary A “Land without Quislings” The Hungarian Anti-Jewish Laws and Relations between Hungary and Germany Countries of Eastern Europe: Political Interests, Anti-Semitism and Military Support The Collaboration of Ukrainian Nationalists with Nazi Germany Between Ideological Affinity and Economic Necessity Collaboration in Lithuania Collaboration in Slavic and Balkan Countries Between Racial Politics and Political Calculation Bulgaria’s Collaboration with the Axis Powers in World War II War and Collaboration in Occupied Vardar Macedonia and West Banat 1941–1944 South European Case Studies: Greece, Italy and Portugal Collaboration in Greece 1941–1944 Italian “Racial Laws” and the Jewish Community of Fiume “Collaborating Neutrality”? Portuguese Collaboration Networks at the Secretariat of National Propaganda Reflections on Jewish “Cooperation” with the Nazis in Western and Eastern Europe Between Collaboration, Betrayal and Coercion Part II The Thesis that only Germans are to Blame – Well-Intended, but Unsustainable The Most Extreme of all of the French State’s Collaboration: The Surrender of the Jews Being in Love with Traitors Traumas that do not End? Not Dealing with History in Hungary The Question of Collaboration and the Politics of Memory in Ukraine About the Authors Bibliography Categorized by Country Index of Persons Index of Places The German Invasion Of Poland In September 1939 And The Occupation Of Other European Countries In The Following Years Generated New Military, Economic And Social Constellations. The Conflict Areas Were On The One Hand Characterized By Fear, Violence And Terror; Members Of The Resistance And People Stigmatized By The Racial Policies Were Arrested, Tortured And Killed By The Nazis. At The Same Time, Different Agents And Individuals Became Interdependent; In This Extreme State Of Emergency, People Were Confronted With New Alternative Attitudes And Behaviors. Collaboration, I.e. The Pragmatic, At Times Open, Cooperation Of Governments, Military And Political Organizations, As Well As Individuals With The German Overlords, The Gestapo And The Nazi Authorities Became The Norm In The Occupied Countries And Satellite States. The Consequence Was The Wide-scale Surrender Particularly Of The Jewish Population And The Rapid Implementation Of Their Deportation To Concentration And Extermination Camps. Complicated Complicity is about the forms taken, motives and spectrum of actions of European collaboration with the Nazis. State authorities, local military organizations and individual players in different countries and areas including France, Scandinavia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Greece, Italy, Portugal and the countries of the former Yugoslavia are discussed in the context of the history of World War II, the history of occupation and everyday life and as an essential influencing factor in the Holocaust. New forms of right-wing populism, nationalism and growing intolerance of Jewish fellow citizens and minorities have made such historically sensitive studies considerably more difficult in many countries today. In this time of increasing historical revisionism in Europe, such elucidating discourse is particularly relevant.-- Provided by publisher "Complicated Complicity is about the forms taken, motives and spectrum of actions of European collaboration with the Nazis. State authorities, local military organizations and individual players in different countries and areas including France, Scandinavia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Greece, Italy, Portugal and the countries of the former Yugoslavia are discussed in the context of the history of World War II, the history of occupation and everyday life and as an essential influencing factor in the Holocaust. New forms of right-wing populism, nationalism and growing intolerance of Jewish fellow citizens and minorities have made such historically sensitive studies considerably more difficult in many countries today. In this time of increasing historical revisionism in Europe, such elucidating discourse is particularly relevant."--Page 4 of cover