Europe on trial : the story of collaboration, resistance, and retribution during World War II / István Deák, Columbia University ; foreword by Norman Naimark, Stanford University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From brutality to international conventions to renewed brutality: foreign occupations in European history -- Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland: the first German conquests -- Defeat and submission: Europe's honeymoon with Hitler, 1939-1941 -- The invasion of the Soviet Union and east European collaboration -- Germany's many allies: a blessing or a curse? -- The beginnings of German decline: the growth and many dilemmas of the resistance movements -- Resistance and civil war in eastern, southern, and southeastern Europe -- Freedom fighters or terrorists: case studies of resistance and reprisal -- The end of the war, the apparent triumph of the resistance movements, and the first retributions -- Purging Hitler's Europe -- The long aftermath of collaboration, resistance, and retribution.