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Explores the role mayors played in navigating the realities of everyday life under the Nazis
Demonstrates how local mayors were gradually turned into instruments of control and repression
Utilises new and insightful archival data to compare mayoralities in three countries
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores the role of mayors in navigating the realities of living and governing under Nazi occupation. In Western Europe under Nazi occupation, mayors of villages and cities were forced into strategic cooperation with the occupier. Mayors had to provide good governance, mediate between occupier and populations, maintain personal legitimacy, and build local consensus. However, as national systems underwent authoritarian reform and collaborationists infiltrated administrations, local governments were gradually turned into instruments of Nazi control and repression. Nico Wouters uses rich new archival data to compare the realities of local government in three countries. Looking at topics such as food supply, public order and safety, forced labour, the repression of resistance, the persecution of the Jews and post-war purges, this book redefines our knowledge of collaboration, resistance and accommodation during Nazi occupation.
Reviews
“One closes this book with admiration for the enormous amount of information Nico Wouters accumulated, and hopes that his next publication will draw the attention not only of the specialists but also of the interested public.” (István Deák, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 33 (1), 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
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Cegesoma, Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium
Nico Wouters
About the author
Nico Wouters is Academic Coordinator at the Brussels CegeSoma and Guest Professor at the History Department of Ghent University, Belgium. He is co-editor in chief of the Journal of Belgian History and editorial board member of the Low Countries Historical Review. He recently published an edited volume, Transitional Justice and Memory in Europe 1945-2013 (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mayoral Collaboration under Nazi Occupation in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, 1938-46
Authors: Nico Wouters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32841-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32840-9Published: 05 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81381-3Published: 14 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32841-6Published: 26 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 350
Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Political History, History of Modern Europe, Social History, History of France