Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory

1. Introduction: “Formulas of Betrayal”—Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory
Eleonora Narvselius, Gelinada Grinchenko

Part I. Military Formations and Combatants in “Formulas of Betrayal”

2. Monuments for Deserters!? The Changing Image of Wehrmacht Deserters in Germany and Their Gradual Entry into Germany’s Memory Culture
Marco Dräger

3. From Traitors to Role Models: Rehabilitation and Memorialization of Wehrmacht Deserters in Austria
Peter Pirker, Johannes Kramer

4. Reinventing Collaboration: The Vlasov Movement in the Postwar Russian Emigration
Benjamin Tromly

Part II. Intellectuals Elites as Betrayers, the Betrayed and Masterminds Behind “Formulas of Betrayal”

5. Taking an Intellectual Stance Between Communist Resistance and Fascist Collaboration: Jean Paulhan and the Épuration Process in France at the End of WWII
Caroline Perret

6. Intellectuals in Times of Troubles: Between Empowerment and Disenchantment During the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan
Yuliya Yurchuk, Alla Marchenko

7. Discussing Wartime Collaboration in a Transnational Digital Space: The Framing of the UPA and the Latvian Legion in Wikipedia
Mārtiņš Kaprāns, Mykola Makhortykh

8. In the Ninth Circle: Intellectuals as Traitors in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Tanya Zaharchenko

Part III. Collaboration in the Conditions of WWII: Crime, Punishment, Memory

9. Collaboration and the Genocide of Roma in Poland
Sławomir Kapralski

10. The Soviet Punishment of an All-European Crime, “Horizontal Collaboration”
Vanessa Voisin

11. “Organized Bestial Gangs”—The Second World War and Images of Betrayal in Yugoslav Socialist Cinema
Tea Sindbæk Andersen

12. Collaboration and Collaborators in Ukraine During the Second World War: Between Myth and Memory
Mykola Borovyk

Part IV. “Formulas of Betrayal” as a Political Ascription and Public Response

13. Silken Braids Under the German Boot: Creating Images of Female Soviet Ostarbeiters as Betrayers and Betrayed
Gelinada Grinchenko, Eleonora Narvselius

14. Betrayal of Memory in Hungarian Public Memorials of the Twentieth Century
Melinda Harlov-Csortán

15. Betrayal and Public Memory: The “Myroslav Irchan Affair” in the Diaspora—Homeland Disjuncture
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen

16. Post-War and Post-Communist Poland and European Knightly Myths of Loyalty and Betrayal: Pasikowski’s Acquis Mythologique Communautaire

Piotr Toczyski

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, European Culture, Memory Studies, Conflict Studies