Mayoral Collaboration under Nazi Occupation in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, 1938-46 - Couverture souple

Wouters, Nico

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3319813811 ISBN 13 : 9783319813813

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

This book explores the role of mayors in navigating the realities of living and governing under Nazi occupation. In Western Europe under Nazi occupation, mayors of villages and cities were forced into strategic cooperation with the occupier. Mayors had to provide good governance, mediate between occupier and populations, maintain personal legitimacy, and build local consensus. However, as national systems underwent authoritarian reform and collaborationists infiltrated administrations, local governments were gradually turned into instruments of Nazi control and repression. Nico Wouters uses rich new archival data to compare the realities of local government in three countries. Looking at topics such as food supply, public order and safety, forced labour, the repression of resistance, the persecution of the Jews and post-war purges, this book redefines our knowledge of collaboration, resistance and accommodation during Nazi occupation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nico Wouters is Academic Coordinator at the Brussels CegeSoma and Guest Professor at the History Department of Ghent University, Belgium. He is co-editor in chief of the Journal of Belgian History and editorial board member of the Low Countries Historical Review. He recently published an edited volume, Transitional Justice and Memory in Europe 1945-2013 (2014).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319813811
• ISBN 13: 9783319813813
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 364
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