Collaboreren op niveau: een vergelijkende studie van Duitse bezettingsregimes gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog

Samenvatting

Collaboration of indigeneous elites with an occupant for other than ideological reasons can be seen either as a result of the pursuit of their own interests and of the populace they represent, or as a tendency towards selfmaintenance of social systems subdued by an overpowering foreign system. With a combination of these two views an analysis is undertaken of occupation regimes according to the level of gravity of the collaboration. The crucial coupling between occupation authorities and a conquered nation can take place at the level of the government of the occupied country, of top civil servants and central figures in the world of industry and commerce, or of local and regional officials. These three types of occupation regime are compared as to (1) the reasons why an occupant adopts one level of top collaboration rather than another, (2) the functional prerequisites of the system of exploitation in question, and (3) the costs and benefits for rulers and ruled. This analysis leads to the conclusion that ceteris paribus both the occupant and the occupied benefit more - or suffer less - the higher the level of gravity of their mutual interorganizational relations. However, political and moral risks for the conquered may also be higher, the higher the level of topcollaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; Copyright of Mens en Maatschappij is the property of Amsterdam University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)