title: National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)
author:  Benjamin Frommer 
description: "[A] well-written book...Benjamin Frommer has excavated a huge amount of detailed data. [F]or scholars of European reconstruction in the 1940s or Czech history, and for others who are concerned with questions of justice for perpetrators of crimes against humanity, it is a sobering and thoughtful account." Patricia , Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Sr. Fellow, Centre for International Relations, Professor and Dean of Arts Emerita, University of British Columbia, Canadian Journal of Sociology Online<br /><br />"In his detailed and highly readable work, Frommer provides a chronological account of post-WWII Czechoslovakiaas legal retribution against its Nazi collaborators." CHOICE<br /><br />"Based on meticulous archival research and careful analysis, Benjamin Frommer tells the extremely important - and largely ignored - story of postwar Czech retributive justice. National Cleansing has wide-ranging implications for our understanding of postwar Europe's attempts to come to terms with collaboration while fostering social and political unity." <br /> -Norman M. Naimark, Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of History, Stanford University<br /><br />"Benjamin Frommer offers new insights into the process of imposition of Communist rule in East Central Europe after World War II. His book, immaculately researched and brilliantly argued, is also a major contribution to the literature on political justice. An outstanding achievement." <br /> -Jan Gross, Department of History, Princeton University<br /><br />"...a sobering and thoughful account." <br /> -Canadian Journal of Sociology Online<br /><br />"In his detailed and highly readable work, Frommer provides a chronological account of post-WWII Czechoslovakiaas legal retribution against its Nazi collaborators." <br /> -CHOICE<br /><br />"Benjamin Frommer has presented an excellent, well-documented history of postwar Czech retribution based on valuable archival materials." <br /> -Slavic Review<br /><br />"...in addition to its interest for specialists in Czech history, this book deserves the attention of anyone wanting to gain an in-depth understanding of European collaboration and retribution in the twentieth century." <br /> HABSBURG, David Gerlach, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh<br /><br />"This unusually complex and dynamic view of a historical process will set standards in the study of modern Bohemia for some time to come." - John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley<br /><br />"While Frommer is concerned primarily with the nature and course of the postwar political battles in Czechoslovakia, he does not neglect the wider context of European retribution against Nazi collaborators. Some of the most interesting points of the narrative are the comparisons of Czech developments to others in the immediate postwar period. All the countries carrying out retribution became involved in constructing new courts and legal practices to retroactively punish the crime of collaboration. Though the Czech case differed in some important ways, this work reminds us that it should be seen as a component part of Europe's emergence from the war. Thus, in addition to its interest for specialists in Czech history, this book deserves the attention of anyone wanting to gain an in-depth understanding of European collaboration and retribution in the twentieth century." - David Gerlach, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, H-NET
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  Independent Bohemia
  
  
  [PREFACE.](Independent%20Bohemia_split_001.html#filepos4248)
  
  [I. WHAT IS AUSTRIA-
  HUNGARY?](Independent%20Bohemia_split_001.html#filepos11753)
  
  [II. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND THE PRESENT
  WAR](Independent%20Bohemia_split_001.html#filepos31616)
  
  [III. CZECH POLITICAL PARTIES BEFORE AND DURING THE
  
  
  WAR
  
  [IV. TERRORISM IN BOHEMIA DURING THE
  WAR](Independent%20Bohemia_split_001.html#filepos91877)
  
  [V. HOW THE CZECHO-SLOVAKS AT HOME ASSISTED THE
  
  
  ALLIES
  
  [VI. THE MILITARY AND POLITICAL ACTION OF THE
  
  
  CZECHO-SLOVAKS ABROAD
  
  [VII. THE CZECHS AT HOME BEGIN TO
  SPEAK](Independent%20Bohemia_split_002.html#filepos232350)
  
  [VIII. CZECHO-SLOVAK CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER
  
  
  NON-GERMAN NATIONS OF CENTRAL EUROPE
  
  [IX. BOHEMIA AS A BULWARK AGAINST PAN-
  GERMANISM](Independent%20Bohemia_split_002.html#filepos335970)
  
  [APPENDIX OF SOME RECENT DOCUMENTS. THE
  
  
  CZECHO-SLOVAK RESOLUTION OF SEPTEMBER 29, 1918
  
  [BIBLIOGRAPHY.](Independen