ABSTRACT
World War II radically changed the nature and appearance of student organizations on European campuses, the effective strategies of resist-- ance available to European student populations, and the existing stu-- dent movements themselves. The war drew a tremendous number of students from universities throughout Europe directly into the conflict and purged schools of their activists; international issues and their implications for home overshadowed other domestic concerns, includ-- ing education; and in many cases universities and colleges simply closed down for the duration of the conflict. But although the war eclipsed or rendered moot many student issues, groups, and actions, students throughout Europe not directly involved in combat continued to agitate and work for causes, which in most cases concerned libera-- tion or imperial conquest. By the end of the war students would find the world a very different place, with new political allegiances and new political threats.
