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Damned if you do--damned if you don't : the collaboration dilemma in business during war and under dictatorship / Joachim Lund -- Die "Neuordnung" des europäischen "Grosswirtschaftsraumes" : deutsche Pläne und Realität / Dietrich Eichholtz -- Thesen und Desiderata zur ökonomischen Besatzungsherrschaft / Harm G. Schröter -- Occupation and industry : the industrial development in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 / Hein Klemann -- The Belgian economic elite between economy and politics / Dirk Luyten -- The economy of occupied and Vichy France : constraints and opportunities / Hervé Joly -- Grundzüge der deutschen Wirtschaftsinteressen in Norwegen, 1940-45 / Robert Bohn -- Business elite networks in Denmark : adjusting to German domination / Joachim Lund -- Swedish adaption to German domination in the Second World War / Martin Fritz -- Germany and the Greek armaments industry : policy goals and business opportunities / Mogens Pelt -- Population policy and economic exploitation : the German occupation of Byelorussia (1941-44) / Paul Sanders -- Dealing with the problem of business and German hegemony, 1939-1945 : closing remarks / Per H. Hansen

This article explores the meaning and impact of the Nazi concept of a 'New Order' for Europe on German-occupied Denmark. The first German civil authority in power in Denmark was the Foreign Ministry, which struggled to conclude an economic union with Denmark in summer 1940. Then Goering's Four-Year Plan and the Reich Economics Ministry took command and economic union was abandoned by Berlin, since a pragmatic, day-to-day approach now prevailed. Other initiatives were taken in order to facilitate Denmark's incorporation in the European New Order, such as the setting up of a ministerial Eastern Committee with the purpose of re-establishing Danish industry in the occupied USSR. The article shows how, in Denmark, German short-term politics actually coincided with long-term plans. Germany's ideas of becoming the economic centre of a self-sufficient continental Europe were closely connected to the idea of securing foodstuffs from its neighbours, and this idea, too, was implemented in spring and early summer 1940, when, after the swift occupation of Denmark and the subsequent severance of its trade with Britain, agricultural exports were diverted to the German market.

How may elites experience a symbolic fall from grace? Elite scholarship has typically described how symbolic structures contribute to consecrate and reinforce existing power relations. Processes of deconsecration are, however, less well described. Deconsecration as a social process is distinct from déclassement, as well as from cultural or juridical processes of exclusion. It is the loss of the very status as "elite." We address the question of deconsecration through a historical case study of the exclusion of elite groups from the Danish Who's Who and professional bodies in the wake of the liberation after the German occupation of Denmark 1940–1945.