Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Empire [Paperback]

This new study provides a concise, accessible introduction to occupied Europe. It gives a clear overview of the history and historiography of resistance and collaboration. It explores how these terms cannot be examined separately, but are always entangled.

Covering Europe from east to west, this book aims to explore the evolution of scholarly approaches to resistance and collaboration. Not limiting itself to any one area, it looks at armed struggle, daily life, complicity and rescue, the Catholic Church, and official and public memory since the end of the war. 

This new study provides a concise, accessible introduction to occupied Europe, providing an overview of the history and historiography of resistance and collaboration. Focusing on examples from France, Germany, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, the authors challenge existing methodologies and contribute to on-going key debates about Nazi Europe.

Editors' Preface.- 1. Interpretations.- 2. Gender as a Framework of Analysis.- 3. Political Violence.- 4. Everyday Resistance and Collaboration.- 5. Christian Responses to Dictatorship, War and Occupation.- 6. Genocide and Rescue.- 7. Resistance, Collaboration and Postwar Reconstruction.- 8. Beyond Resistance and Collaboration.- Bibliography.- Index.

There is no doubt that Resistance and Collaboration is well worth perusing. The authors write in a lucid style and the book is superbly organized. For students and the reading public, it provides a comprehensively researched summary of both the topic and its historiographical legacy & . (Perry Biddiscombe, H-France Review, Vol. 19 (26), 2019)

Vesna Drapac is Associate Professor of History at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her publications include War and Religion: Catholics in the Churches of Occupied Paris and Constructing Yugoslavia: A Transnational HistorylC*