Campion, Jonas (2009) Le rétablissement de la légalité policière après la Seconde Guerre mondiale: les gendarmeries belge, française et la Koninklijke marechaussee néerlandaise. PhD thesis, UCL/Paris IV Sorbonne.
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This PhD thesis is situated at the crossroad of the history of social control institutions, the history of military occupations, and the history of the repression of collaboration after the Second World War in Europe. It investigates and compares the post-war experiences of the Belgian gendarmerie, the French gendarmerie, and the Dutch Koninklijke Marechaussee, within the context of the multiple dynamics involved in the re-establishment of their legitimacy as legal police authorities. This complex reality is best defined as the whole of processes that allow to provide the armed forces with the necessary human, material and moral capabilities to perform their functions in the newly freed society. Our analysis of the continuities and ruptures marking the development of the gendarmerie forces between 1930 and 1950 is concerned with the evolution of their organisational structures, of their personnel, and of their professional identity. More in particular, we closely examine the ways in which they underwent mechanisms of ‘epuration’ (via extra-legal, administrative and judicial procedures), as a result of their activity within occupied territories. Overall, this examination reveals that although the armed police forces did evolve on the human and structural level and in terms of duties, in line with the evolution of European society, the professional values underpinning this development remained unchanged. These continued to correspond to the professional logic of serving the public cause and the political authorities, by responding to the need for processes of social regulation.
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