Forging a New Heimat
Expellees in Post-War West Germany and Canada
By (author) Pascal Maeder Series edited by Sylvia Hahn Series edited by Dirk Hoerder Series edited by Dobrochna Kalwa Series edited by Anne Winter
Paperback (Published)
(May 2011)
ISBN: 9783899718058
6.22 x 9.49 inches
Price: $82.00
On back order
Entwurzelt durch den Zweiten Weltkrieg, fanden Vertriebene in Westdeutschland wie auch in Kanada eine neue Heimat.
In the aftermath of World War II, twelve million German expellees lost their homes in Central and Eastern Europe. The overwhelming majority came to occupied Germany. However, expellees found themselves also stranded in Western Europe, Africa and the Americas, which is often overlooked by researchers and the public. Going beyond the standard narratives of flight, vigilante evictions and transfers, this book follows expellees in West Germany and Canada and shows, for example, how German prisoners-of-war, exilees or immigrants experienced the expulsions in distant Canada. As the author illustrates making extensive use of oral histories, their experiences were an integral part of the multi-faceted expellee story even though they were physically absent from their homes. Juxtaposing the record of two countries with disparate public discourses on immigration, the author also reveals how in both countries expellees eventually adopted national identities which, based on their ethno-regional heritage, reflected their experience of extreme nationalism, war and expulsion as well as the initially difficult settlement into a new political, social and cultural environment.
Dr. Pascal Maeder ist Assistent am Lehrstuhl für die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts an der Universität Basel.
- By (author) Pascal Maeder
- Series edited by Sylvia Hahn
- Series edited by Dirk Hoerder
- Series edited by Dobrochna Kalwa
- Series edited by Anne Winter
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Aleksandrinke’s Trans-Mediterranean Domestic Workers’ Migration and National Imagination
Finding the Way Home
Young People’s Stories of Gender, Ethnicity, Class, and Places in Hamburg and London
Migration – Arbeit – Geschlecht
Arbeitsmigration in Mitteleuropa vom 17. bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts
wir sind halt alle anders
Eine gesellschaftspolitische Analyse deutscher und kanadischer Jugendlicher zu Zugehörigkeit, Gender und Vielkulturalität
European Mobility
Internal, International, and Transatlantic Moves in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Aneignung und Selbstbehauptung
Zum Prozess der Integration und Akkulturation von »GastarbeiterInnen« in Bremen
Einwanderung und Politik
Historische Erinnerung und Politische Kultur als Gestaltungsressourcen in den Niederlanden, Schweden und Kanada
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