Purges of Nazi collaborators, sometimes called national cleansing, were widespread trials of people accused of collaborating with the Nazi occupiers in many European countries after World War II. As much as 2–3 percent of the population of Europe was affected by these trials, which were often held under special laws. Most of these trials did not emphasize crimes committed against Jews during the war.[1]
Examples include:
- Legal purge in Norway after World War II
- Épuration légale in France[2]
- August trials in Poland[3]
- People's courts (Czechoslovakia) in Czechoslovakia[4]
- Soviet trials of Nazi collaborators[5]
References edit
- ^ Priemel, Kim Christian (2020). "War Crimes Trials, the Holocaust, and Historiography, 1943–2011". A Companion to the Holocaust. Wiley. pp. 173–189. ISBN 978-1-118-97052-2.
- ^ Lewis, Abigail E. (2022). "Collaboration in Focus: Photographic Evidence in the French Purge Trials, 1944–1949". French Politics, Culture & Society. 40 (3): 73–98. doi:10.3167/fpcs.2022.400304. S2CID 255770774.
- ^ Kornbluth, Andrew (2021). The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-24913-4.
- ^ Frommer, Benjamin (2005). National Cleansing: Retribution Against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00896-9.
- ^ Penter, Tanja (2005). "Collaboration on Trial: New Source Material on Soviet Postwar Trials against Collaborators". Slavic Review. 64 (4): 782–790. doi:10.2307/3649913. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 3649913. S2CID 35070744.
Further reading edit
- Deák, István; Gross, Jan T.; Judt, Tony (2000). The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-00954-4.
- Konrád, Ota; Barth, Boris; Mrňka, Jaromír (2021). Collective Identities and Post-War Violence in Europe, 1944–48: Reshaping the Nation. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-78386-0.