Jörg Echternkamp is a Senior Fellow of the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Potsdam, and co-editor of the journal Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Calgary in Canada, Visiting Scholar at the German Historical Institute in Paris, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne- Panthéon) and Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg. His major publications include Der Aufstieg des deutschen Nationalismus 1770–1840 (1998), Nach dem Krieg (2003), Kriegsschauplatz Deutschland 1945 (2006) and Germany and the Second World War: German Wartime Society 1939–1945, vols IX/1–2 (2008–2011, ed.).

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• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsChapter 1. A New Perspective on the WarHenry RoussoChapter 2. Conceptualizing the Occupations of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (1933–1944)Benoît MajerusChapter 3. The Role of the War in National Societies: The Examples of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the NetherlandsChantal KestelootChapter 4. Myths and Realities of the “People’s War” in BritainJohn RamsdenChapter 5. “We Can Take It!” Britain and the Memory of the Home front in the Second World WarMark ConnellyChapter 6. Experience and Memory: The Second World War in PolandPiotr MadajczykChapter 7. Remembering and Researching the War: The Soviet and Russian ExperienceSergei KudryashovChapter 8. Bombing and Land War in Italy: Military Strategy, Reactions, and Collective MemoryGabriella GribaudiChapter 9. Italy as Occupier in the Balkans: Remembrances and War Crimes after 1945Filippo FocardiChapter 10. Brest under Bombardment (1940–1944): Being in WarPierre Le GoïcChapter 11. Experiences of War, Memories of War, and Political Behavior: The Example of the French Communist PartyPhilippe ButonChapter 12. The Air War, the Public, and Cycles of MemoryDietmar SüßChapter 13. The Long Shadows of the Second World War: The Impact of Experiences and Memories of War on West German SocietiesAxel SchildtChapter 14. The War in Postwar Society: The Role of the Second World War in Public and Private Spheres in the Soviet Occupation Zone and Early GDRDorothee WierlingChapter 15. Violence and Victimhood: Looking Back at the World Wars in EuropeRichard BesselChapter 16. The Meanings of the Second World War in Contemporary European HistoryJörg Echternkamp and Stefan MartensNotes on ContributorsSelected BibliographyIndex