Description
For most of the population of Europe and East and Southeast Asia, the most persistent and significant aspect of their experience of the Second World War was that of occupation by one or more of the Axis powers. In this ambitious and wide-ranging study, Aviel Roshwald brings us the first single-authored, comparative treatment of European and Asian responses to German and Japanese occupation during the war. He illustrates how patriotic, ethno-national, and internationalist identities were manipulated, exploited, reconstructed and reinvented as a result of the wholesale dismantling of states and redrawing of borders. Using eleven case studies from across the two continents, he examines how behavioral choices around collaboration and resistance were conditioned by existing identities or loyalties as well as by short-term cost–benefit calculations, opportunism, or coercion.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Part I. Patriotisms Under Occupation (The Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Thailand); Introduction to Part I; 1. Initial choices and conditions; 2. Patriotic solidarity in the first flush of defeat; 3. The shifting parameters of the patriotically plausible; Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Fractured Societies and Fractal Identities – Civil Wars Under Occupation (Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, and China): Introduction to Part II; 4. The civil wars in a nutshell: historical overview; 5. Continuities and ruptures; 6. From parochial interests to internationalist visions: The fractal structures of political identity in civil wars; Conclusion to Part II; Part III. Conquest in the Guise of Liberation (the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ukraine): Introduction to Part III; 7. Colonial histories; 8. The ghosts of colonialisms past and the weight of occupations present; Conclusion to Part III; Conclusion.
