Justice, Politics and Memory in Europe after the Second World War: Landscapes after Battle, Volume 2 - Tapa dura

This original collection, edited by four of Europe's leading scholars and practitioners, provides new insights into the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe. The research on the neglected experience of many survivors after the war vividly demonstrates that persecution, fear, pain, and injustice continued, even after the formal end of the military conflict in 1945. In their totality, the survivors represented a great variety of experiences and fates, but their lives after 1945 were shaped by a number of shared themes and problems. Living in a state of flux in the turbulent post-war world, these survivors, together with their liberators and former captors, became drawn into the morass of Cold War politics and morality. The book's essays document how survivors navigated through bureaucratic and political obstacles in search of recognition, compensation, and justice. The book also reflects on their place in post-war public memory, commemoration, and history-writing.

Suzanne Bardgett is Head of Research at the Imperial War Museum London. David Cesarani is Research Professor in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Jessica Reinisch Reinisch is a Lecturer in Contemporary History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Johannes-Dieter Steinert is Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies at the University of Wolverhampton.