Under the Shadow of the Swastika
Subtitle: The Moral Dilemmas of Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Europe
Publisher: NYU Press; New York University Press
Published: September 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780814798607
Subjects: European history: Second World War; Fascism & Nazism; Political oppression & persecution; Second World War, 1939-1945; Ethics Of War And Conflict; World War II - Europe; Philosophy; History - Military / War; History: World; Europe; Europe - Germany; History & Theory - General; Military - World War II; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Atrocities; Collaborationists; Moral and ethical aspects; Underground movements; World War, 1939-1945
Description: "This study in the ethics of war is the only work to focus on the moral dilemmas of resistance and collaboration in Nazi-occupied Europe. It presents a comprehensive guide to the harrowing ethical choices that confronted resisters, community leaders and ordinary citizens in Hitler's Europe and includes a detailed discussion of Jewish responses to Nazi rule.

Bennett explores how resistance movements responded to brutal Nazi policies based on the doctrine of collective responsibility in which entire populations paid the price for the actions of a few determined rebels. Bennett offers a critique of morally questionable methods of resistance such as torture, the mutilation and killing of German prisoners of war, and guerrilla warfare."--BOOK JACKET.