Memories of the Second World War in Neutral Europe, 1945-2023 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bragança, Manuel; Tame, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book focuses on the six major European countries and states that remained officially neutral throughout the Second World War, namely Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Vatican.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003827399
• Artikelnr.: 69505439

Autorenporträt

Manuel Bragança is an Assistant Professor in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at University College Dublin. His publications include The Long Aftermath (2016, with Peter Tame), Ego-Histories of France and the Second World War (with Fransiska Louwagie, 2018), and Hitler's French Literary Afterlives (2019). Peter Tame is an independent researcher, specialising in twentieth-century French literature and ideology. His principal publications include The Ideological Hero (1998), Isotopias: Places and Spaces in French War Fiction of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2015), Mnemosyne and Mars (2013), and The Long Aftermath (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: The search for neutrality in wartime. Introduction: European
neutrals in World War II and after: A balancing act Section I: Ireland /
Éire. 1. 'No useful purpose'? The Government Information Bureau (GIB) and
Irish neutrality 2. Forgotten Volunteers? Remembering and Recognising
veterans of the Second World War in the Republic of Ireland 3. The
Emergency's Improbable Frequency in Contemporary Irish Culture. Section II:
Portugal. 4. Portugal, World War II refugees and the Holocaust. History and
Memory 5. Portuguese Memorials of World War II, between Remembrance and
Oblivion 6. Memory works: The Changing Faces of Portugal's Neutrality in
recent Portuguese feature films and documentaries (1992-2017). Section III:
Spain. 7. Diplomats in the fray. The struggle to establish the legacy of
Spanish foreign policy during the Second World War 8. From Sepharad to the
Judeo-Masonic Conspiracy. Facts and Fictions on Spain and the Holocaust 9.
Neutrality of Spain in World War II: The Filmic Construction of a Myth.
Section IV: Sweden. 10. Archives on Victims of Nazism in Sweden: From Oral
History to Cultural Memory or Oblivion 11. Sweden, the War and the
Holocaust in post-war memory 12. On remembrance and forgetting: the Second
World War in Swedish memory culture. Section V: Switzerland. 13.
Switzerland and its neutral stance during World War II: a past that won't
go away 14. Memorials of World War II and the Holocaust in Switzerland 15.
Switzerland: The Policy of Neutrality and the Uses and Abuses of World War
II Memory. Section VI: The Vatican. 16. The papacy, the Catholic World, and
the memory of the Second World War 17. Vatican diplomacy on the razor's
edge: preserving neutrality and ecclesiastical heritage sites in Italy
during World War II 18. Telling children of neutral spaces in occupied
Rome. Memories of the Church, the Pope, and persecution. Afterword: The
Shadow of the Second World War on Neutral Europe.