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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Eastern Front, between myth and barbarism -- 1 Germany: On victims, perpetrators and fellow travellers -- Nations of victims and honourable soldiers -- Stalingrad Syndrome -- A new memory and the disputed role of the Wehrmacht -- The Nazis are always the others -- The 'Russians' as occupiers: Liberators, victims or rapists? -- 2 The Soviet Union and Russia: The long shadow of the Great Patriotic War -- Remembering and forgetting the war: Stalin, the supreme victor -- The limited thaw of memory under Khrushchev -- The Brezhnev era: The empire of memory -- Question orthodoxy? From Gorbachev to Yeltsin -- The Putin era and the return of the Great Patriotic War -- 3 Post-Soviet Eastern Europe: Occupiers, occupied and patriots -- Denial and re-signification of the Great Patriotic War -- Patriots in other people's uniforms: From Ukraine to the Baltic -- Collaborators, resistance fighters … and Jews? -- 4 Finland: Two wars, one memory -- 5 Crusaders for Europe … and the friendly Mediterraneans -- 'We don't know how to hate': The memory of the Eastern Front in Italy and Spain -- Some conclusions: Sites of memory and oblivion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A comparative analysis of the cultural and collective memories of the Eastern Front in Europe between 1945 and 2022.