"Surviving Hitler and Mussolini examines how far everyday life was possible in a situation of total war and brutal occupation. Its theme is the social experience of occupation in German- and Italian-occupied Europe, and in particular the strategies ordinary people developed in order to survive. What emerges is that ordinary people were less heroes, villains or victims than inventive and resourceful individuals able to maintain courage and dignity despite the conditions they faced."--Jacket.

Surviving hunger : life in the cities and the countryside during the occupation / Polymeris Voglis -- To work or not to work? / Robert Gildea, Dirk Luyten and Juliane Fürst -- Intimate and sexual relations / Anette Warring -- The school as a cultural interface / Pavla Vošahlíková, Bénédicte Rochet and Fabrice Weiss -- Resisters : from everyday life to counter-state / Olivier Wieviorka and Jacek Tebinka -- Resistance and reprisals / Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel.