Complicated Complicity: European Collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2021

Complicated Complicity

European Collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II

Edited by: Martina Bitunjac and Julius H. Schoeps

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671186

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About this book

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 / Editor information

Julius H. Schoeps, Moses Mendelssohn Foundation, Berlin; Martina Bitunjac, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword by the Editors Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Part I
Western Countries between Collaboration, Neutrality and Resistance
Considerate Collaborationism: If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them On Rationales behind Four Nordic Countries’ Very Different Forms of Collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II Lars Dencik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
France between Collaboration and Resistance The Armistice Decision, the Montoire Meeting and Vichy’s Ambiguous Stand between the Axis and the Allies Valentina Sommella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Aspects of Collaboration in Central Europe: The Cases of Poland and Hungary
A “Land without Quislings” Collaboration in Poland Stephan Lehnstaedt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
The Hungarian Anti-Jewish Laws and Relations between Hungary and Germany Alessandro Vagnini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Countries of Eastern Europe: Political Interests, Anti-Semitism and Military Support
The Collaboration of Ukrainian Nationalists with Nazi Germany Olaf Glöckner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Between Ideological Affinity and Economic Necessity Romania and Nazi Germany before and during World War II Giuseppe Motta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Collaboration in Lithuania Joachim Tauber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Collaboration in Slavic and Balkan Countries
Between Racial Politics and Political Calculation The Annihilation of Jews in the Slovak State and the Independent State of Croatia Martina Bitunjac Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Bulgaria’s Collaboration with the Axis Powers in World War II Björn Opfer-Klinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
War and Collaboration in Occupied Vardar Macedonia and West Banat 1941–1944 Meinolf Arens and Katerina Kakasheva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
South European Case Studies: Greece, Italy and Portugal
Collaboration in Greece 1941–1944 Ioannis Zelepos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Italian “Racial Laws” and the Jewish Community of Fiume Ester Capuzzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
“Collaborating Neutrality”? Portuguese Collaboration Networks at the Secretariat of National Propaganda Fernando Clara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Reflections on Jewish “Cooperation” with the Nazis in Western and Eastern Europe
Between Collaboration, Betrayal and Coercion A Nightmarish Chapter of European-Jewish Relations under the Nazis Julius H. Schoeps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Part II
The Thesis that only Germans are to Blame – Well-Intended, but Unsustainable Krisztián Ungváry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
The Most Extreme of all of the French State’s Collaboration: The Surrender of the Jews Serge Klarsfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Being in Love with Traitors Views on Collaboration during World War II in Several Balkan Countries after the End of the Cold War Tvrtko Jakovina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Traumas that do not End? Not Dealing with History in Hungary Franz Sz. Horváth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
The Question of Collaboration and the Politics of Memory in Ukraine Imre Szakál Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Bibliography Categorized by Country Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Index of Persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Index of Places Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Historians with a focus on Nazi Germany; politicians.
Pages
- Front matter: 19
- Main content: 350
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 14
- Tables: 4
Keywords: Collaboration; World War II; Holocaust

eBook

Published: June 21, 2021
ISBN: 9783110671186

Hardcover

Published: June 21, 2021
ISBN: 9783110671087