The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath

Abstract

Tony Judt Preface vii PART I: PRELIMINARIES 1 Istvan Deik Introduction 3 Jan T. Gross Themes for a Social History of War Experience and Collaboration 15 PART II: THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR 37 Istvan Deik A Fatal Compromise? The Debate over Collaboration and Resistance in Hungary 39 Jan T. Gross A Tangled Web: Confronting Stereotypes Concerning Relations between Poles, Germans, Jews, and Communists 74 PART III: TRIALS AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY 131 Martin Conway Justice in Postwar Belgium: Popular Passions and Political Realities 133 Luc Huyse The Criminal justice System As a Political Actor in Regime Transitions: The Case of Belgium, 1944-50 157 Peter Romijn Restoration of Confidence: The Purge of Local Government in the Netherlands As a Problem of Postwar Reconstruction 173 Sarah Farmer Postwar Justice in France: Bordeaux 1953 194 Mark Mazower The Cold War and the Appropriation of Memory: Greece after Liberation 212 Laszlo Karsai The People's Courts and Revolutionary justice in Hungary, 1945-46 233 Bradley Abrams The Politics of Retribution: The Trial of Jozef Tiso in the Czechoslovak Environment 252 PART IV: EPILOGUE 291 Tony Judt The Past Is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Postwar Europe 293 List of Contributors 325 Index 327