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Deak Istavan

The politics of retribution in Europe : World War II and its aftermath - Princeton Princeton University Press 2000 - 337 xi

Table of contents
Tony Judt Preface vii
PART I: PRELIMINARIES 1
Istvan Deik Introduction 3 J
an 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

ISBN: 9780691009544

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. World War - 1939-1945 - Collaborationists - Europe2. World War - 1939-1945 - Reparations3. Reconstruction - 1939-1951- Europe

Dewey Class. No.: 940.530000 / DEA