Mayoral Collaboration under Nazi Occupation in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, 1938-46 [electronic resource] / by Nico Wouters.

Wouters, Nico.
Mayoral Collaboration under Nazi Occupation in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, 1938-46
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783319328416 978-3-319-32841-6
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/2229
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2016.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XII, 350 p. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
Introduction -- 1. Local Democracies -- 2. Adaptation (1940) -- 3. Infiltration (1940-41) -- 4. The Limits of Nazification -- 5. The Limits of Good Governance -- 6. Systems of Repression -- 7. Disintegration -- 8. Transition -- Conclusion.
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
World War, 1939-1945.
World politics.
Europe __ History __ 1492-.
Social history.
France __ History.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
Political History.
History of Modern Europe.
Social History.
History of France.