Between Resistance and Collaboration explores the various means by which the local population both protested the hardships brought about by the Nazi occupation of Northern France, often forcing the authorities to do something about them, and evaded the plethora of regulations, political and economic, when the authorities were unable or unwilling to act.

Autorentext

Lynne Taylor is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Zusammenfassung
A study of the impact on the population of northern France of the changes to the structure of authority and the economy brought upon by the Nazi occupation of the region and the diverse ways in which the local population addressed those challenges.

Inhalt
Introduction The Germans Arrive Economic Reconstruction Reconstruction's Failure and its Consequences THE POPULATION'S RESPONSE Resistance Strikes and Work Stoppages Pillaging Food Riots Black Market and Theft Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Bibliography Index