Finding the origins of Europe on Trial in the war-time death of his almost brother-in-law Bla Stollr, a 29-year-old Hungarian journalist and resistance fighter, Dek examines the realpolitik of wartime Europe through the themes of collaboration, retribution, and resistance, and looks at how some of a more pragmatic turn of mind adjusted to changing conditions. Eleven chapters are: from brutality to international conventions to renewed brutality; Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland; defeat and submission; the invasion of the Soviet Union and East European collaboration; Germany’s many allies; the beginnings of German decline; resistance and civil war in Eastern, Southern, and southeastern Europe; freedom fighters or terrorists?; the end of the war, the apparent triumph of the resistance movements, and the first retributions; purging Hitler’s Europe; the long aftermath of collaboration, resistance, and retribution. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) Read Less