Living with the Enemy: German Occupation, Collaboration and Justice in the Western Pyrenees, 1940-1948 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107178205)

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 fascinating book, Sandra Ott uncovers the hidden history of collaboration in the Pyrenean borderlands of the Basques and the B arnais 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.

Author: Sandra Ott
ISBN-10: 1107178207
ISBN-13: 9781107178205
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/26/2017
Pages: 382
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.54w x 0.92d