Vertriebene and pieds-noirs in postwar Germany and France : comparative perspectives

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Vertriebene and pieds-noirs in postwar Germany and France : comparative perspectives

edited by Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' - the German expellees from the East (Vertriebene) - with the most important case of decolonization migration - the French repatriates of Algeria (pieds-noirs).

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Comparing Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs
  • Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen PART I: FROM EMPIRE TO NATION-STATE: 1945 AND 1962 1. Legacies of Lebensraum: German Identity and Multiethnicity
  • Shelley Baranowski 2. The Birth of the Hexagon: 1962 and the Erasure of France's Supranational History
  • Todd Shepard PART II: REPATRIATION AND INTEGRATION 3. Assimilation versus Incorporation: Expellee Integration Policies in East and West Germany after 1945
  • Michael Schwartz 4. The Postcolonial Repatriations of the French of Algeria: An Emblematic Case of a Public Integration Policy
  • Yann Scioldo-Zurcher PART III: SELF-ORGANIZATION AND REPRESENTATION 5. The German Expellee Organizations: Unity, Division, and Function
  • Pertti Ahonen 6. Unity above all? Relationships and Rivalries within the Pied-Noir Community
  • Claire Eldridge PART IV: POLITICAL IMPACT AND PARTICIPATION 7. The Political Integration of the Expellees in Postwar West Germany
  • Frank Boesch 8. The Pieds-Noirs and French Political Life, 1962-2015
  • Eric Savarese PART V: COMMEMORATIVE PRACTICES AND EMOTIONS 9. Homeland Corners: Memories, Objects, and Emotions of Expellees in Postwar West Germany
  • Tobias Weger 10. Pied-Noir Pilgrimages, Commemorative Spaces, and Counter-Memory
  • Michele Baussant PART VI: POLITICS OF REMEMBRANCE 11. Towards a European Memory of Forced Migration? Processes of Institutionalization and Musealization in Germany and Poland
  • Stefan Troebst 12. Memory Lobbying and the Shaping of 'Colonial Memories' in France since 1990: the Local, the National, and the International
  • Jan C. Jansen Conclusions: Comparison - the Way to Understanding
  • Etienne Francois

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