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This book explores the role of mayors in navigating the realities of living and governing under Nazi occupation. In Western Europe under Nazi occupation, mayors of villages and cities were forced into strategic cooperation with the occupier. Mayors had to provide good governance, mediate between occupier and populations, maintain personal legitimacy, and build local consensus. However, as national systems underwent authoritarian reform and collaborationists infiltrated administrations, local governments were gradually turned into instruments of Nazi control and repression. Nico Wouters uses rich new archival data to compare the realities of local government in three countries. Looking at topics such as food supply, public order and safety, forced labour, the repression of resistance, the persecution of the Jews and post-war purges, this book redefines our knowledge of collaboration, resistance and accommodation during Nazi occupation.

History. --- France --- Europe --- World War, 1939-1945. --- Social history. --- World politics. --- History of World War II and the Holocaust. --- Political History. --- History of Modern Europe. --- Social History. --- History of France. --- History—1492-. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Collaborationists --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Europe-History-1492-. --- France-History. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Europe—History—1492-. --- France—History. --- World War, 1939-1945 - Collaborationists - Belgium. --- Local government - Belgium - History - 20th century --- Belgium - History - German occupation, 1940-1945 --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- Collaborateurs --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- Local government --- Belgium