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. Aline Sax, Voor Vlaanderen, volk en Führer: De motivatie van Vlaamse collaborateurs tijdens de. Aline Sax, Voor Vlaanderen, volk en Führer: De motivatie van Vlaamse collaborateurs tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, 1940-1945 (Antwerpen: Manteau, 2012) (For Flandres, the People and the Führer: Flemish Collaborators and their Motives for Collaboration in the Second World War, 1940-1945).
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