ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the damning accusations laid against them cannot be easily dismissed as propaganda gimmicks of a hostile regime; the gentry's behavior during the war lent itself to such accusations. It examines their conduct was governed by codes that privileged class over any other form of identification, codes so compelling that they required the gentry to suspend momentarily the politics of war and to act in a manner construed by others as unpatriotic. To elucidate these points, and to illustrate representations and discourses accompanying the war, the author enlists gentry's narratives of the occupation by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. In hindsight some gentry regret, or even consider it negligent on the part of the London government and its underground structures, that they were not warned about the ensuing events. As it is mentioned in, war narratives took substantial part of each of the author interviews, and each informant demonstrated a detailed knowledge of family history during the occupation.
