Spirit of Resistance: Dutch Clandestine Literature During the Nazi Occupation by Jeroen Dewulf

Clandestine literature was published in all Nazi-occupied countries, but nowhere else did it flourish as it did in the Netherlands. This raises important questions: What was the content of this literature? What were the risks of writing, printing, selling, and buying it? And why the Netherlands? In all its complexity, clandestine literature offers a unique perspective on Dutch society under German occupation and on the postwar debates about collaboration, accommodation, and excessive victimization. This study is the first to offer a complete story of Dutch clandestine literature, a story combining resistance and complicity, victory and defeat, pride and shame.