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Part III - Conquest in the Guise of Liberation (the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ukraine)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2023

Aviel Roshwald
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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The three cases in this section fall along a spectrum of varied relationships with the pre-war metropoles that governed them. Ukraine as of June 1941 was a fully integrated constituent republic of a territorially contiguous Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was Nazi Germany that sought to colonize it. Yet Ukraine’s recent history complicated the picture significantly, as will be discussed below. And the initial German invasion was misread by certain Ukrainian nationalists as an opportunity for national liberation. The Philippines and the Dutch East Indies were both subject to governance by distant, overseas imperial metropoles, and their indigenous populations did not, by and large, have US or Dutch citizenship, respectively. However, in the case of the Philippines, an elected government functioned semi-autonomously in the capital Manila, and in the mid-1930s a firm deadline of 1946 had been agreed upon for the termination of American rule and the granting of formal political independence to the Philippines. The Dutch government had no such plans to relinquish control over the East Indies.

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European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937–1945
, pp. 251 - 410
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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