Dangerous Liaisons - Collaboration and World War Two (Paperback, New)

The Nazi regime in Germany was terrible enough without even accounting for the policy of collaboration. So what extra does collaboration say about Hitler and his plans for Europe? Peter Davies explores the mindset and political attitudes of Hitler and also many other controversial pro-Nazi leaders in Western Europe, Scandanavia, Central and Eastern Europe, and also beyond. Delving into four different 'types' of collaboration: political, financial, the Holocaust, and collaboration at a social level, he asks some difficult questions. The story of collaboration is brought up to date, assessing both the legacy and its contemporary parallels. - Addresses one of the most sensational and controversial historical subjects - full of modern, contemporary and topical resonances - Deals with collaboration on a global rather than country-specific level - emphatically not just about France - Violent collaboration - covers how states collaborated in wholesale murder - Horizontal collaboration - explores why women did what they did and how they were punished - War trials - from Nuremburg to Klaus Barbie, Davies asks what light these events shed on the whole subject of collaboration