Synopses & Reviews
A vivid and provocative discussion of collaboration in World War II - a notorious and controversial subject.
- Deals with collaboration on a global rather than country specific level - emphatically not just about France
- Sensational and controversial, it examines how states collaborated in wholesale murder
- Looks at war trials from Nuremburg to Klaus Barbie
The Nazi regime in Germany was terrible enough without even accounting for the policy of collaboration. So what extra does collaboration say about Hitler and his plans for Europe?In Dangerous Liaisons: Collaboration and World War Two Peter Davies explores the mindset and political attitudes of Hitler and many other controversial pro-Nazi leaders in Western Europe, Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe, and beyond. Delving into four different types of collaboration: political, financial, the Holocaust, and collaboration at a social level, he explores some difficult topics. The story of collaboration is brought up to date, assessing both the legacy and its contemporary parallels.
Peter Davies teaches at the University of Huddersfield and is the author of The Routledge Companion to Facism (Routledge 2002) and The Extreme Right in France (Routledge 2002)
Synopsis
The Nazi regime in Germany was terrible enough without even accounting for the policy of collaboration. So what extra does collaboration say about Hitler and his plans for Europe? Peter Davies explores the mindset and political attitudes of Hitler and also many other controversial pro-Nazi leaders in Western Europe, Scandanavia, Central and Eastern Europe, and also beyond. Delving into four different types of collaboration: political, financial, the Holocaust, and collaboration at a social level, he asks some difficult questions. The story of collaboration is brought up to date, assessing both the legacy and its contemporary parallels.
Synopsis
A vivid and provocative discussion of collaboration in World War Two - one of the most controversial and notorious historical subjects with a legacy that continues to the present day.
- Addresses one of the most sensational and controversial historical subjects ¿ full of modern, contemporary and topical resonances
- Deals with collaboration on a global rather than country-specific level - emphatically not just about France
- Violent collaboration ¿ covers how states collaborated in wholesale murder
- Horizontal collaboration ¿ explores why women did what they did and how they were punished
- War trials - from Nuremburg to Klaus Barbie, Davies asks what light these events shed on the whole subject of collaboration
Synopsis
Collaboration is one of the most controversial and notorious aspects of World War Two and twentieth century history.
Its legacy still resonates through Europe today. Peter Davies¿ unique new account of collaboration clarifies the meaning of a misunderstood term. In this new history, he assesses how and why it occurred and why it remains relevant today.
About the Author
Peter Davies teaches at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of 'The Routledge Companion to Fascism' (2002) and The Extreme Right in France' (2002)
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Meaning and Varieties
Chapter 2 - The Story of Collaboration
Chapter 3 - Why did Collaborators Collaborate?
Chapter 4 - Political Collaboration: The Scientist and the Laboratory
Chapter 5 - Collaboration and Society: Sex and Sinners
Chapter 6 - Economic Collaboration: Greed, Profit and Exploitation
Chapter 7 - Agents of the Holocaust
Chapter 8 - The Legacy of Collaboration
Evaluation
Bibliography