The Resistance In Western Europe 1940 1945

Author : Olivier Wieviorka
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231548649

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The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945 by Olivier Wieviorka Pdf

In just three months in 1940, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France fell to the Nazis. The German occupation of Western Europe had begun—but a brave few rose up in defiance. National resistance has long been celebrated in remembrances of World War II, depicted as making significant contributions to the defeat of Nazi Germany. However, the so-called army of shadows drew heavily on the support of London and Washington, a fact often forgotten in postwar Europe. The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945 is a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Examining clandestine organizations in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy, Olivier Wieviorka sheds new light on the factors that shaped the resistance and its place in the grand scheme of Anglo-American military strategy. While national actors played a leading role in fomenting resistance, British and American intelligence services and propaganda as well as financial, material, and logistical support were crucial to its activities and growth. Wieviorka illuminates the policies of governments in exile and resistance actors regarding cooperation with the British and Americans, pointing to the persistence of national self-interest and long-standing historical tensions. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources and bringing together the political, diplomatic, and military dimensions of the conflict, this book is the first account of the resistance on a continental scale and from a trans-European perspective.

Author : Claudia Baldoli,Andrew Knapp,Richard Overy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441185686

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Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945 by Claudia Baldoli,Andrew Knapp,Richard Overy Pdf

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Author : Michael Richard Daniell Foot
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000003376857

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Resistance by Michael Richard Daniell Foot Pdf

Cutting through a maze of legend and myth, this landmark book is the firts to analyze the entire field of underground wartime resistance to the Nazis in Europe.

Author : Brynmor Jones Library,Michael L. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Anti-Nazi movement
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037734733

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Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance by Brynmor Jones Library,Michael L. Smith Pdf

Author : Olivier Wieviorka
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674970397

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The French Resistance by Olivier Wieviorka Pdf

Olivier Wieviorka’s history of the French Resistance debunks lingering myths and offers fresh insight into social, political, and military aspects of its operation. He reveals not one but many interlocking homegrown groups often at odds over goals, methods, and leadership. Yet, despite a lack of unity, these fighters braved Nazism without blinking.

Author : Michael Stenton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : WISC:89014499636

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Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 by Michael Stenton Pdf

Author : Klaas Castelein,Michel Wenting
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472848000

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The Dutch Resistance 1940–45 by Klaas Castelein,Michel Wenting Pdf

Describes and illustrates the full range of Dutch resistance groups and German and collaborationist counter-resistance groups during the Nazi occupation in 1940-45. The Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II followed a complex course, whose scope is not widely understood. It was a great deal broader and more varied than the much-reported German counter-espionage success against Dutch agents parachuted in by the Special Operations Executive. From spring 1943 onwards, three Dutch Resistance organizations gained momentum: the Order Service (OD), the Resistance Council (RVV), and the National Assault Teams (LKP). In response, the Germans raised collaborationist forces to counter the Resistance, including the much-feared Landwacht. In September 1944 the OD, RVV and LKP amalgamated into the Netherlands Interior Forces (NBS), while Allied troops began to liberate the southern provinces. This allowed NBS forces in the south to form Stoottroepen, uniformed and armed by both the British and US armies. These assisted the Allied advance, while a bloody underground struggle continued in the occupied north until final liberation in April–May 1945. Illustrated with rare photos and new colour plates, this book gives a comprehensive account of one of the lesser-known struggles of World War II.

Author : Philip Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192507082

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Hitler's Collaborators by Philip Morgan Pdf

Hitler's Collaborators focuses the spotlight on one of the most controversial and uncomfortable aspects of the Nazi wartime occupation of Europe: the citizens of those countries who helped Hitler. Although a widespread phenomenon, this was long ignored in the years after the war, when peoples and governments understandably emphasized popular resistance to Nazi occupation as they sought to reconstruct their devastated economies and societies along anti-fascist and democratic lines. Philip Morgan moves away from the usual suspects, the Quislings who backed Nazi occupation because they were fascists, and focuses instead on the businessmen and civil servants who felt obliged to cooperate with the Nazis. These were the people who faced the most difficult choices and dilemmas by dealing with the various Nazi uthorities and agencies, and who were ultimately responsible for gearing the economies of the occupied territories to the Nazi war effort. It was their choices which had the greatest impact on the lives and livelihoods of their fellow countrymen in the occupied territories, including the deportation of slave-workers to the Reich and hundreds of thousands of European Jews to the death camps in the East. In time, as the fortunes of war shifted so decisively against Germany between 1941 and 1944, these collaborators found themselves trapped by the logic of their initial cooperation with their Nazi overlords — caught up between the demands of an increasingly desperate and extremist occupying power, growing internal resistance to Nazi rule, and the relentlessly advancing Allied armies.

Author : Bob Moore
Publisher : Berg 3pl
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015051297136

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Resistance in Western Europe by Bob Moore Pdf

This text provides an analysis of individual national historiographies on resistance movements in Western Europe in World War II. It discusses the debates they have engendered and their relationship to discussions of the occupation and postwar reconstruction.

Author : Randall Hansen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199927920

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Disobeying Hitler by Randall Hansen Pdf

Looks at the men who disobeyed Hitler's orders through resistance, thus saving thousands of Allied and German lives, keeping supply lines open, while preserving cities and infrastructure.

Author : Stephen Hawes,Ralph White
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080724318

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Resistance in Europe, 1939-1945 by Stephen Hawes,Ralph White Pdf

"This book, the first to provide an overall picture of the resistance to Nazi occupation, combines a strategic and political analysis of the phenomenon with an attempt to assess its social significance. Contributions which discusses the military effectiveness of resistance are balanced with particular accounts of different groups - local communities, detainees in Auschwitz, Catholics and Communists in France and Germany, and so on. The book discusses the ideologies that lay behind resistance, and the hopes for a new world that the various groups entertained. Above all, it shows how individual rebellion combined into a movement whose strategic value will always be disputed, but whose effort "gave back self- respect to the defeated; and kept alive ideas of dignity and originality, without which all Europe, all the world, would, be the poorer'. - Publisher.

Author : Patrick Henry
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813225890

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Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis by Patrick Henry Pdf

This volume puts to rest the myth that the Jews went passively to the slaughter like sheep. Indeed Jews resisted in every Nazi-occupied country - in the forests, the ghettos, and the concentration camps.The essays presented here consider Jewish resistance to be resistance by Jewish persons in specifically Jewish groups, or by Jewish persons working within non-Jewish organizations. Resistance could be armed revolt; flight; the rescue of targeted individuals by concealment in non-Jewish homes, farms, and institutions; or by the smuggling of Jews into countries where Jews were not objects of Nazi persecution. Other forms of resistance include every act that Jewish people carried out to fight against the dehumanizing agenda of the Nazis - acts such as smuggling food, clothing, and medicine into the ghettos, putting on plays, reading poetry, organizing orchestras and art exhibits, forming schools, leaving diaries, and praying. These attempts to remain physically, intellectually, culturally, morally, and theologically alive constituted resistance to Nazi oppression, which was designed to demolish individuals, destroy their soul, and obliterate their desire to live.

Author : Frank Mehring,Hans Bak,Mathilde Roza
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004292017

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Politics and Cultures of Liberation by Frank Mehring,Hans Bak,Mathilde Roza Pdf

Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy focuses on mapping, analyzing, and evaluating memories, rituals, and artistic responses to the theme of “liberation.” How is the national framed within a dynamic system of intercultural contact zones highlighting often competing agendas of remembrance? How does the production, (re)mediation, and framing of narratives within different social, territorial, and political environments determine the cultural memory of liberation? The articles compiled in this volume seek to provide new interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on the politics and cultures of liberation by examining commemorative practices, artistic responses, and audio-visual media that lend themselves for transnational exploration. They offer a wide range of diverse intercultural perspectives on media, memory, liberation, (self)Americanization, and conceptualizations of democracy from the war years, through the Cold War era to the 21st century.

Author : Gordon Thomas,Greg Lewis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780451489050

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Defying Hitler by Gordon Thomas,Greg Lewis Pdf

"A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils.”—Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of The First Wave An enthralling story that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule Nazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets to Allied spies. Some forged passports to help Jews escape the Reich. For others, resistance was as simple as writing a letter denouncing the rigidity of Nazi law. No matter how small the act, the danger was the same--any display of defiance was met with arrest, interrogation, torture, and even death. Defying Hitler follows the underground network of Germans who believed standing against the Fuhrer to be more important than their own survival. Their bravery is astonishing--a schoolgirl beheaded by the Gestapo for distributing anti-Nazi fliers; a German American teacher who smuggled military intel to Soviet agents, becoming the only American woman executed by the Nazis; a pacifist philosopher murdered for his role in a plot against Hitler; a young idealist who joined the SS to document their crimes, only to end up, to his horror, an accomplice to the Holocaust. This remarkable account illuminates their struggles, yielding an accessible narrative history with the pace and excitement of a thriller.

Author : Randolph Bradham
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : France
ISBN : 1848327420

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Set Europe Ablaze by Randolph Bradham Pdf

The Brutal War of Resistance Behind German Lines, 1940-1945 After the Fall of France in 1940, disparate groups continued the fight against the Germans and their collaborators. This new book examines their organisation, tactics, equipment and operations, initially as guerrilla fighters in the early days of the Occupation, providing their assistance to downed Allied airmen and co-operation with Allied Special Forces raids, and then later evolving into more regular forces, forming the army of the Free French of the Interior in 1944 when the Allies landed in Normandy. This was a brutal war of reprisal and counter-reprisal, where conflicts between different Resistance factions could be almost as fierce as those with the Germans. This is a fascinating account of a vital yet often neglected aspect of the war against Nazi Germany. AUTHOR: Dr. Randolph Bradham was born in South Carolina, in 1924. He joined the US Army in June 1943 and fought in the European Theatre with the 66th Infantry Regiment, then after the war taught and practised surgery until his retirement. His other books include Hitler's U-boat Fortresses and To the Last Man. 16 pages of plates