The History of the Trial of Collaborators in Greece (1944-1949)

Presentation

The history of the legal purge of Greek collaborators following the Second World War has finally been brought to light thanks to Dimitris Kousouris. This book offers French readers a precise look at the events and partisan rationales (nationalist, royalist, anti-democratic, communist) that shook Greece, and Europe, from 1944 to 1949. 

The analysis of these times of war is exemplary since, on the one hand, it dismantles the mechanisms that produce conflicts (civil war, the Cold War), and on the other, it allows us to understand how, with the trial held by the Special Collaborators Court of Athens, the legal artifices used allowed for the spread of the myth of a nation unanimously aligned with the resistance by assimilating a large number of former collaborationists while excluding the mass resistance movement. 

This book has the merit of bringing together that which continues to render our world contradictory: the unceasing engendering of fratricidal civil conflicts and the search for a symbolic process of reparation.

Author

Dimitris Kousouris earned a PhD from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris in 2009, and has since taught at the University of Crete, University of Chicago, University of Konstanz, Columbia University and EHESS. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna in Austria.

440 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication: 26/09/2017
ISBN: 9782858312597