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The Kings and the Pawns - Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II (Paperback)
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The Kings and the Pawns - Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II (Paperback)
Series: War and Genocide
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For many years, the history of Byelorussia under Nazi occupation
was written primarily from the perspective of the resistance
movement. This movement, a reaction to the brutal occupation
policies, was very strong indeed. Still, as the author shows, there
existed in Byelorussia a whole web of local institutions and
organizations which, some willingly, others with reservations,
participated in the implementation of various aspects of occupation
policies. The very sensitivity of the topic of collaboration has
prevented researchers from approaching it for many years, not least
because in the former Soviet territories ideological considerations
have played an important role in preserving the topic's
"untouchable" status. Focusing on the attitude of German
authorities toward the Byelorussians, marked by their anti-Slavic
and particularly anti-Byelorussian prejudices on the one hand and
the motives of Byelorussian collaborators on the other, the author
clearly shows that notwithstanding the postwar trend to marginalize
the phenomenon of collaboration or to silence it altogether, the
local collaboration in Byelorussia was clearly visible and pervaded
all spheres of life under the occupation.
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