István Deák Europe on trial
the story of collaboration, resistance, and retribution during World War II
Gedrukt boek
From brutality to international conventions to renewed brutality: foreign occupations in European history. - Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland: the first German conquests. - Defeat and submission: Europe's honeymoon with Hitler, 1939-1941. - The invasion of the Soviet Union and east European collaboration. - Germany's many allies: a blessing or a curse? - The beginnings of German decline: the growth and many dilemmas of the resistance movements. - Resistance and civil war in eastern, southern, and southeastern Europe. - Freedom fighters or terrorists: case studies of resistance and reprisal. - The end of the war, the apparent triumph of the resistance movements, and the first retributions. - Purging Hitler's Europe. - The long aftermath of collaboration, resistance, and retribution.