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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