Collective Identities and Post-War Violence in Europe, 1944–48 Reshaping the Nation
This book analyses the process of ‘reshaping’ liberated societies in post-1945 Europe. Post-war societies tried to solve three main questions immediately after the dark times of occupation: Who could be considered a patriot and a valuable member of the respective national community? How could relati...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
Series: | World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- PART I. RESHAPING THE NATION
- Introduction; Ota Konrád, Boris Barth, Jaromír Mrňka
- The End of the War and the Beginning of the Peace: Where Violence Leaves Off and Reconstruction Begins: Continental Europe, 1944-1947; Norman Naimark
- PART II. JUSTICE
- Redefining National Identities through Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and France; Barbara De Luna and Greta Fedele
- Purges, Patriotism, and Political Violence: The Danish Case, 1944-1945; Henrik Lundtofte
- 'Mentalities of War, Mentalities of Peace': Capital Punishment in the Norwegian ‘Treason Trials’, 1941-1948; Anika Seemann
- PART III. GENDER
- 'German Brats and Tarts': Gender, Sexuality, and Collective Memory in Post-War Norway; Caroline Nilsen
- Gender, Ethnicity, and Multidirectional Violence during the Last Months of German Rule in Lithuania: A Case Study of Local Force Battalions; Justina Smalkyté
- PART IV. NATION AND NATIONALISM
- Assessing National 'Consciousness': The Belarusian Home Guard, 1944-1945; Aleksandra Pomiecko
- Cleansing Greece of the Miasma of its 'Sudeten': Macedonian Slavs as an Unwanted Minority in the Aftermath of the Second World War; Tasos Kostopoulos
- Between Nation and Religion: Czech Protestants and the Transfer of the Sudeten Germans, 1945-1948; Ondřej Matějka
- PART V. CITIZENSHIP
- 'Pure Christians' vs. 'Working Citizens of the Democratic Era': How the Claimants of Jewish Property perceived Citizenship in Hungary; Borbála Klacsmann
- A Glass Half Full or Half Empty? The Postwar Treatment of the German Minority in Denmark; Peter Thaler
- PART VI. CONCLUSION
- Conclusion; Christoph Cornelißen