A number of the conflicts that wracked European countries under Axis-power occupation during the Second World War can be understood as civil wars. This analytical prism should be seen as complementing rather than replacing the more conventional pairing of collaboration and resistance. The three European cases from this period that best fit conventional notions of civil war in terms of the intensity and duration of fighting among co-nationals are Greece, Yugoslavia, and Italy. A comparative analysis can yield insights into the complex interplay of historical continuities and ruptures, and of nationalist and internationalist frames of reference, in shaping the agendas and choices of participants in these violent struggles.

Collection: Texts

Project: 6. Under a cloak of terror: violence and armed conflict in Europe.

Chronology: XX

Scope: Secondary Education, Higher Education

Link: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28001/chapter-abstract/211764411?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Resource type: Article

Format: Texts

Source: The Oxford Handbook of European History

Language: English

Date: 2014

Owner: Porto group (Modernalia)

Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199695669.013.30

Abstract: Civil Wars in Europe

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