Book contents
- The Cambridge History of The Second World War
- The Cambridge History of The Second World War
- The Cambridge History of the Second World War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contents
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume II
- Maps
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Ideologies
- Part II Diplomacy and alliances
- Part III Occupation, Collaboration, Resistance and Liberation
- Introduction to Part III
- 15 Wartime occupation by Germany
- 16 Collaboration, resistance and liberation in Western Europe
- 17 Wartime occupation by Italy
- 18 Collaboration, resistance and liberation in the Balkans, 1941–1945
- 19 Soviet liberations and occupations, 1939–1949
- 20 Collaboration, resistance and accommodation in Northeast Asia
- 21 Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941–1945
- 22 The British Empire, 1939–1945
- 23 France and its colonial civil wars, 1940–1945
- 24 The Muslim world in the Second World War
- Bibliographical essays
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Introduction to Part III
from Part III - Occupation, Collaboration, Resistance and Liberation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of The Second World War
- The Cambridge History of The Second World War
- The Cambridge History of the Second World War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contents
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume II
- Maps
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Ideologies
- Part II Diplomacy and alliances
- Part III Occupation, Collaboration, Resistance and Liberation
- Introduction to Part III
- 15 Wartime occupation by Germany
- 16 Collaboration, resistance and liberation in Western Europe
- 17 Wartime occupation by Italy
- 18 Collaboration, resistance and liberation in the Balkans, 1941–1945
- 19 Soviet liberations and occupations, 1939–1949
- 20 Collaboration, resistance and accommodation in Northeast Asia
- 21 Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941–1945
- 22 The British Empire, 1939–1945
- 23 France and its colonial civil wars, 1940–1945
- 24 The Muslim world in the Second World War
- Bibliographical essays
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
The rapid conquests in Western Europe of April, May and June 1940 expanded German occupation to Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and France, countries which were not the focus of German ambitions, but which promised far greater industrial resources. The first wave of serious scholarship on occupied Europe tended to emphasize German economic exploitation and to look to the conscription of West European workers to work in Germany as a key motivation for joining the resistance. This chapter singles out food and sex as issues which crossed all national boundaries in occupied Europe, were profoundly influenced by German actions and, in turn, became key to the changing moral values and commitments of occupied Europeans. The dynamic effects of transferring both food and labour to Germany pushed the new colonial supply zones into a spiral of starvation and increasing mortality.
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- The Cambridge History of the Second World War , pp. 377 - 384Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015