![]() The recent research into transitional justice could undoubtedly have offered much food for reflection. The author paid relatively little attention to the parallels and differences between legal and historical research. ![]() The accused had every reason to present himself to his greatest advantage, while the court searched for criminal acts, which is not the same as trying to find a (historical) explanation of the events. These are rich sources which, however, have to be read very critically by the historian. She took a random sample of one per cent of all Flemish collaborators sentenced for collaboration, which meant 326 different case files. Sax looked for an answer to three seemingly simple questions: Who were the collaborators? Why did they do what they did? What was their view of the world? She looked for answers in the post-war criminal proceedings of collaborators who have been sentenced after the war. ![]() The decision to leave out French-speaking Belgians seems reasonable because different collaboration movements developed along both sides of the Belgian language border. This book is one of the first attempts to study Flemish (Dutch-speaking Belgian) collaborators from a bottom-up perspective. ![]() ![]() Up until now, collaboration with the National Socialist occupier in Belgium during the Second World War was mainly considered from a top-down perspective. ![]()
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