National Cleansing: Retribution Against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia

National Cleansing: Retribution Against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia
ISBN-10
0521008964
ISBN-13
9780521008969
Category
History
Pages
420
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Benjamin Frommer

Description

National Cleansing examines the prosecution of more than one-hundred thousand suspected war criminals and collaborators by Czech courts and tribunals after the Second World War. As the first comprehensive history of postwar Czech retribution, this book provides a new perspective on Czechoslovakia's transition from Nazi occupation to Stalinist rule in the turbulent decade from the Munich Pact of September 1938 to the Communist coup d'état of February 1948. Based on archival sources that remained inaccessible during the Cold War, National Cleansing demonstrates retribution's central role in the postwar power struggle and the contemporary expulsion of the Sudeten Germans.

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