Savage continent, Europe in the aftermath of World War II, Keith Lowe
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Label
Savage continent, Europe in the aftermath of World War II, Keith Lowe
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-441) and index
Illustrations
illustrationsplatesmaps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Savage continent
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
796983759
Responsibility statement
Keith Lowe
Sub title
Europe in the aftermath of World War II
Summary
Recounts the disorder in Europe after World War II, describing the brutal acts against Germans and collaborators, the anti-Semitic beliefs that reemerged, and the Allied-tolerated expulsions of citizens from their ancestral homelands
Table Of Contents
Legacy of war. Physical destruction; Absence ; Displacement ; Famine ; Moral destruction ; Hope ; Landscape of chaos -- Vengeance. Thirst for blood; Camps liberated ; Vengeance restrained : slave labourers ; German prisoners of war ; Vengeance unrestrained : Eastern Europe ; Enemy within ; Revenge on women and children ; Purpose of vengeance -- Ethnic cleansing. Wartime choices; Jewish flight ; Ethnic cleansing of Ukraine and Poland ; Expulsion of the Germans ; Europe in microcosm : Yugoslavia ; Western tolerance, Eastern intolerance -- Civil war. Wars within wars; Political violence in France and Italy ; Greek Civil War ; Cuckoo in the nest : Communism in Romania ; Subjugation of Eastern Europe ; Resistance of the 'Forest Brothers' ; Cold War mirror
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Europe in the aftermath of World War II