The Politics of Retribution in Europe
Contributors: Istvan Deak (Editor); Jan Tomasz Gross (Editor); Tony Judt (Editor)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780691009537
Subjects: European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; History & Theory - General; Post World War II History; Reparations; History; History - General History; Modern - 20th Century; History: World; Europe; Europe - General; Military - World War II; Collaborationists; Reconstruction (1939-1951); World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: CONQUERING ARMIES over the centuries have always found willing collaborators in the countries they occupy, and, if sufficiently oppressive and brutal, they have also met with civilian resistance.