Xosé M. Núñez Seixas is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He has published widely on the comparative history of nationalist movements and national and regional identities. He is the co-editor of Regionalism and Modern Europe (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) and Metaphors of Spain: Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century (2017).

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Eastern Front between Myth and Brutality 1. Germany: On Victims, Perpetrators and Fellow Travellers 2. The USSR and Russia: The Long Shadow of the Great Patriotic War3. Post-Soviet Eastern Europe: Occupiers, the Occupied and Patriots4. Finland: Two Wars, One Memory5. ‘Crusaders for Europe’… and those ‘nice Mediterraneans’ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Second World War’s Eastern Front featured a battlefield that was dominated by the Red Army and Wehrmacht but also included participants from Romania and Finland, as well as Spain and Italy. Each has developed myths about their respective experiences, suffering, and heroism and, for the first time, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas has put them into conversation with each other in a single volume that offers a modern synthesis and “panoramic investigation” of the state of the field of collective memory studies when it comes to the Eastern Front and its modern-day implications