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

Edited by Martina Bitunjac and Julius H. Schoeps


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.


Author information

Julius H. Schoeps, Moses Mendelssohn Foundation, Berlin; Martina Bitunjac, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam


CONTENTS

Frontmatter

Foreword by the Editors

Contents

Part I

Western Countries between Collaboration, Neutrality and Resistance

Considerate Collaborationism: If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them

Lars Dencik

France between Collaboration and Resistance

Valentina Sommella

Aspects of Collaboration in Central Europe: The Cases of Poland and Hungary

A “Land without Quislings”

Stephan Lehnstaedt

The Hungarian Anti-Jewish Laws and Relations between Hungary and Germany

Alessandro Vagnini

Countries of Eastern Europe: Political Interests, Anti-Semitism and Military Support

The Collaboration of Ukrainian Nationalists with Nazi Germany

Olaf Glöckner

Between Ideological Affinity and Economic Necessity

Giuseppe Motta

Collaboration in Lithuania

Joachim Tauber

Collaboration in Slavic and Balkan Countries

Between Racial Politics and Political Calculation

Martina Bitunjac

Bulgaria’s Collaboration with the Axis Powers in World War II

Björn Opfer-Klinger

War and Collaboration in Occupied Vardar Macedonia and West Banat 1941–1944

Meinolf Arens and Katerina Kakasheva

South European Case Studies: Greece, Italy and Portugal

Collaboration in Greece 1941–1944

Ioannis Zelepos

Italian “Racial Laws” and the Jewish Community of Fiume

Ester Capuzzo

“Collaborating Neutrality”? Portuguese Collaboration Networks at the Secretariat of National Propaganda

Fernando Clara

Reflections on Jewish “Cooperation” with the Nazis in Western and Eastern Europe

Between Collaboration, Betrayal and Coercion

Julius H. Schoeps

Part II

The Thesis that only Germans are to Blame – Well-Intended, but Unsustainable

Krisztián Ungváry

The Most Extreme of all of the French State’s Collaboration: The Surrender of the Jews

Serge Klarsfeld

Being in Love with Traitors

Tvrtko Jakovina

Traumas that do not End? Not Dealing with History in Hungary

Franz Sz. Horváth

The Question of Collaboration and the Politics of Memory in Ukraine

Imre Szakál

About the Authors

Bibliography Categorized by Country

Index of Persons

Index of Places


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