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Klappentext This book analyses how France! Belgium and the Netherlands emerged from the Second World War. Zusammenfassung This book analyses how France! Belgium and the Netherlands emerged from the Second World War. Pieter Lagrou offers a genuinely comparative approach! based on extensive archival research. Brilliantly researched and fluently written! this book will be of central interest to all scholars and students of twentieth-century European history. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Troublesome Heroes: The Post-War Treatment of Resistance Veterans: 1. Approaching victory and re-establishing the state; 2. Heroes of a nation: Belgium and France; 3. A nation of heroes: the Netherlands; Part II. Repatriating Displaced Populations from Germany: 4. Displaced populations; 5. The challenge to the post-war state: Belgium and the Netherlands; 6. Pétain's exiles and De Gaulle's deportees; Part III. The Legacy of Forced Economic Migration: 7. Labour and total war; 8. Moral panic: 'the soap, the suit and above all the Bible'; 9. Patriotic scrutiny; 10. 'Deportation': the defence of the labour conscripts; Part IV. Martyrs and Other Victims of Nazi Persecution; 11. Plural persecutions; 12. National martyrdom; 13. Patriotic memories and the genocide; 14. Remembering the war and legitimising the post-war international order; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
