Deák / Deak / Gross The Politics of Retribution in Europe

World War II and Its Aftermath
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-3205-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Deák, István

Deak, Istvan

Gross, Jan T.

Gross, Jan

Judt, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tony Judt Preface vii

PART I: PRELIMINARIES 1

Istvan Deik Introduction 3

Jan T. Gross Themes for a Social History of War Experience and Collaboration 15

PART II: THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR 37

Istvan Deik A Fatal Compromise? The Debate over Collaboration and Resistance in Hungary 39

Jan T. Gross A Tangled Web: Confronting Stereotypes Concerning Relations between Poles, Germans, Jews, and Communists 74

PART III: TRIALS AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY 131

Martin Conway Justice in Postwar Belgium: Popular Passions and Political Realities 133

Luc Huyse The Criminal justice System As a Political Actor in Regime Transitions: The Case of Belgium, 1944-50 157

Peter Romijn "Restoration of Confidence": The Purge of Local Government in the Netherlands As a Problem of Postwar Reconstruction 173

Sarah Farmer Postwar Justice in France: Bordeaux 1953 194

Mark Mazower The Cold War and the Appropriation of Memory: Greece after Liberation 212

Laszlo Karsai The People's Courts and Revolutionary justice in Hungary, 1945-46 233

Bradley Abrams The Politics of Retribution: The Trial of Jozef Tiso in the Czechoslovak Environment 252

PART IV: EPILOGUE 291

Tony Judt The Past Is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Postwar Europe 293

List of Contributors 325

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

István Deák is Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of, among other books, Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, l848-1918. Jan T. Gross is Professor of Politics and European Studies at New York University. He is the author of, among other books, Revolution from Abroad: Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia (Princeton). Tony Judt is Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University. His many books include The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, and the French Twentieth Century.