- Summary
- In post-liberation France, the French courts judged the cases of more than one hundred thousand people accused of aiding and abetting the enemy during the Second World War. In this book, Sandra Ott uncovers the hidden history of collaboration in the Pyrenean borderlands of the Basques and the Bearnais in southwestern France through nine stories of human folly, uncertainty, ambiguity, ambivalence, desire, vengeance, duplicity, greed, self-interest, opportunism and betrayal. Covering both the occupation and liberation periods, she reveals how the book's characters became involved with the occupiers for a variety of reasons, ranging from a desire to settle scores and to gain access to power, money and material rewards, to love, friendship, fear and desperation. These wartime lives and subsequent postwar reckonings provide us with a new lens through which to understand human behavior under the difficult conditions of occupation, and the subsequent search for retribution and justice.
- Variant Title
- German occupation, collaboration, and justice in the Western Pyrenees, 1940-1948
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Ott, Sandra, author.
- Published
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017
©2017
- Locale
- France
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pyrenäen
- Contents
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Context
1. Pyrenean Borderlands: Setting and Cultures
2. Tumultuous Times: World War, the Spanish Civil War, and German Occupation
3. Total Occupation, Collaborationism, and Organized Resistance
4. Process of Liberation and the Purge
5. Judiciary and the Court of Justice
pt. II Narratives and the Trials
6. Harsh Justice: An Ill-Fated Black Market Bicycle Vendor
7. A German Massacre: Consequences for a Teenaged Informer
8. Dangerous Cohabitation: A Pro-German Basque Farmer, a Duplicitous Passeur, an STO Evader, and a German Interpreter
9. Opportunistic Accommodation: An Exiled Spanish Republican, a Basque Shopkeeper, and a German Interpreter
10. Ambiguities: A Town Hall Secretary, a Vichy Police Commissioner, and a Nazi Officer
11. Opportunism in a Franco-German Friendship: A Bearnais Shopkeeper and a Nazi Officer
12. Duplicitous Accommodation: A Basque Double Agent and a Nazi Officer
13. Collaborationism: A Teenaged Volunteer in the Waffen-SS
14. Sex, Vengeance, and Duplicity: The Strange Case of Dr. Verite
pt. III Conclusions
Conclusions.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-348) and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Context -- 1. Pyrenean Borderlands: Setting and Cultures -- 2. Tumultuous Times: World War, the Spanish Civil War, and German Occupation -- 3. Total Occupation, Collaborationism, and Organized Resistance -- 4. Process of Liberation and the Purge -- 5. Judiciary and the Court of Justice -- pt. II Narratives and the Trials -- 6. Harsh Justice: An Ill-Fated Black Market Bicycle Vendor -- 7. A German Massacre: Consequences for a Teenaged Informer -- 8. Dangerous Cohabitation: A Pro-German Basque Farmer, a Duplicitous Passeur, an STO Evader, and a German Interpreter -- 9. Opportunistic Accommodation: An Exiled Spanish Republican, a Basque Shopkeeper, and a German Interpreter -- 10. Ambiguities: A Town Hall Secretary, a Vichy Police Commissioner, and a Nazi Officer -- 11. Opportunism in a Franco-German Friendship: A Bearnais Shopkeeper and a Nazi Officer -- 12. Duplicitous Accommodation: A Basque Double Agent and a Nazi Officer -- 13. Collaborationism: A Teenaged Volunteer in the Waffen-SS -- 14. Sex, Vengeance, and Duplicity: The Strange Case of Dr. Verite -- pt. III Conclusions -- Conclusions.
