Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. PART I: PRELIMINARIES
5. Introduction 3
6. Themes for a Social History of War Experience and Collaboration 15
7. PART II: THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR
8. A Fatal Compromise? The Debate over Collaboration and Resistance in Hungary 39
9. A Tangled Web: Confronting Stereotypes Concerning Relations between Poles, Germans, Jews, and Communists 74
10. PART III: TRIALS AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY
11. Justice in Postwar Belgium: Popular Passions and Political Realities 133
12. The Criminal Justice System As a Political Actor in Regime Transitions: The Case of Belgium, 1944–50 157
13. “Restoration of Confidence”: The Purge of Local Government in the Netherlands As a Problem of Postwar Reconstruction 173
14. Postwar Justice in France: Bordeaux 1953 194
15. The Cold War and the Appropriation of Memory: Greece after Liberation 212
16. The People’s Courts and Revolutionary Justice in Hungary, 1945–46 233
17. The Politics of Retribution: The Trial of Jozef Tiso in the Czechoslovak Environment 252
18. PART IV: EPILOGUE
19. The Past Is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Postwar Europe 293
20. Contributors 325
21. Index 327