Nieuwe geschiedschrijving van de collaboratie. Introductie bij het thema

Abstract

A New Historiography of the CollaborationIn this issue, four young historians present the results of their original research on National-Socialist collaboration during the German occupation of the Netherlands and Belgium. The authors take issue with some of the more traditional representations in the historiography of the collaboration and collaborators as moral, political and criminal deviationists per se. They analyze the motives of the Dutch and Belgian National Socialists, the dynamics of their political activism, and the interaction with their social environments. This article is part of the special issue 'A New Historiography of the Collaboration'.