Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945

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The collection offers more than 22,000 records in nearly 1,000 files selected by Dr. Michael Stenton, University of Cambridge. There are also newly commissioned thematic essays by leading scholars in the field with links directly to relevant documents, a World War II Chronology, a picture gallery of SOE plans and equipment and clips from the SOE film, Now it can be told (1946).

The essays are:

  • Life in Occupied France, 1940-1944: An overview of attitudes, experiences and choices by Prof. Rod Kedward, University of Sussex
  • Norway Under German Occupation, 1940-1945 by Dr. Chris Mann, Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
  • The Benelux Countries During the Second World War Between Collaboration Accommodation and Resistance by Dr. Dirk Martin, Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society, Brussels
  • The Departments of the Foreign Office by Dr. Michael Stenton, formerly of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge

The collection includes detailed information, indexed by year and country, regarding Belgium, France, Norway, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the Vatican, Portugal and Luxembourg, as well as general files regarding Europe as a whole.