This is a compelling study of human folly, vengeance, opportunism and betrayal during the German occupation of the French Basque Country and Bearn. Based on extensive fieldwork and a close reading of trial dossiers, Ott focuses on ordinary people who formed relationships with Germans during 1940-4 and were later accused of 'collaboration'.
This is a compelling study of human folly, vengeance, opportunism and betrayal during the German occupation of the French Basque Country and Bearn. Based on extensive fieldwork and a close reading of trial dossiers, Ott focuses on ordinary people who formed relationships with Germans during 1940-4 and were later accused of 'collaboration'.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sandra Ott is an Oxford-educated anthropologist, and she has done research in the Basque Country for forty years. Speaking Basque, French and Spanish, she acquired minor fame among artisan cheese-makers for the chapter on 'The cheese analogy of conception' in her first book The Circle of Mountains: A Basque Shepherding Community (1981). Other works include the ethnographic film The Basques of Santazi with Granada Television for 'Disappearing Worlds', and War, Judgment and Memory in the Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945 (2008).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. The Context: 1. Pyrenean borderlands: setting and cultures 2. World wars, civil war, and German occupation 3. Violence and the process of liberation 4. The purge, the judiciary, and the court of justice Part II. The Narratives and the Trials: 5. A black market bicycle vendor 6. A teenaged informer and the tragedy of Portet 7. A pro-German Basque farmer 8. The changing face of the enemy 9. A town hall secretary and a Vichy police commissioner 10. Friendship with a Nazi officer 11. A Basque double agent and a Nazi officer 12. A teenaged volunteer in the Waffen-SS 13. Sex, vengeance, and duplicity: the strange case of Dr Vérité Part III. Conclusions.
Introduction Part I. The Context: 1. Pyrenean borderlands: setting and cultures 2. World wars, civil war, and German occupation 3. Violence and the process of liberation 4. The purge, the judiciary, and the court of justice Part II. The Narratives and the Trials: 5. A black market bicycle vendor 6. A teenaged informer and the tragedy of Portet 7. A pro-German Basque farmer 8. The changing face of the enemy 9. A town hall secretary and a Vichy police commissioner 10. Friendship with a Nazi officer 11. A Basque double agent and a Nazi officer 12. A teenaged volunteer in the Waffen-SS 13. Sex, vengeance, and duplicity: the strange case of Dr Vérité Part III. Conclusions.
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