1st Edition

The Collaborators Collaboration with the Nazis in Europe During World War 2

By Patrick G. Zander Copyright 2027
326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines a group of the most infamous of Europe’s Nazi collaborators during the Second World War in biographical profiles, comparing and contrasting their backgrounds, careers, convictions, successes, and failures in order to examine whether there was a true “collaborator” type. In the first years of the war, the Axis Powers managed to defeat and conquer several of the nations of... Read more

Introduction

1. Another Name for Treason: Vidkun Quisling and Collaboration in Norway

2. “The Politics of Friendship”: Anton Mussert, the NSB, and Dutch Collaboration

3. “If Not a Sword, then a Shield”: The Tragedy of Henri Philippe Petain and Vichy France

4. “Peace Is the Main Thing”: Pierre Laval, Vichy France, and the Attempted “Double Game”

5. God’s Fascist: Monsignor Jozef Tiso and Fascist Slovakia

6. Fascism, Regicide, and Genocide: Ante Pavelic and the Ustasha Regime in Croatia

7. “An Unwilling Ally”: Miklos Horthy and the Hungarian Dilemma

8. “A Common Enemy”: Marshal Ion Antonescu, the German Necessity, and the Holocaust in Romania

9. Betraying Stalin: General Andrey Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement

10. Conclusions

Biography

Patrick G. Zander is Professor of History at Georgia Gwinnett College near Atlanta, where he teaches British and European history and classes on the World Wars. He is the author of eight books on twentieth century history, including Hidden Armies of the Second World War (2017).