Manuel Borutta - Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France: Comparative Perspectives

Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France

Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France

Comparative Perspectives

Edited by

Manuel Borutta

Ruhr-Universitt Bochum, Germany

and

Jan C. Jansen

German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, USA

VERTRIEBENE AND PIEDS-NOIRS IN POSTWAR GERMANY AND FRANCE: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

Introduction, selection and editorial matter Manuel Borutta & Jan C. Jansen 2016

Individual chapters Respective authors 2016

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Contents

Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen

Shelley Baranowski

Todd Shepard

Michael Schwartz

Yann Scioldo-Zrcher

Pertti Ahonen

Claire Eldridge

Frank Bsch

Eric Savarese

Tobias Weger

Michle Baussant

Stefan Troebst

Jan C. Jansen

Etienne Franois

Acknowledgments

This volume began as an experiment a conference titled The Nation and its Repatriates: Pieds-Noirs and Vertriebene in Comparative Perspective, held at the German Historical Institute in Paris (DHIP) in March 2012. This conference brought, for the very first time, two academic communities into dialogue that had hitherto remained separated; those working on the German expellees and those specializing in the French repatriates from Algeria. Most of the chapters published here were first presented at this conference. Others were written specifically for this book, which also is the result of many conversations between the editors and the contributors from Finland, France, Germany, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

We want to express our gratitude to our co-organiser Raphalle Branche and to the DHIP for providing the venue and funding for the conference, especially its deputy director Stefan Martens, Luna Hoppe, and Dunja Houelleu for their invaluable support in organizing it. We also wish to thank the Research Group Global Processes and the Cluster of Excellence Cultural Foundations of Social Integration, both at the University of Konstanz, for their generous funding of the conference. Further thanks go to the Centre dhistoire sociale du XXe sicle at Universit Paris-I Panthon; the Direction de la mmoire, du patrimoine et des archives du Ministre de la Dfense et des Anciens Combattants; the Institut Universitaire de France; and the Center for Mediterranean Studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum, for their financial support.

We are grateful to those who gave papers, comments, and chaired sessions at the conference: Omar Carlier, Fanny Colonna (19342014), Sebastian Conrad, Fabrice dAlmeida, Batrice Fleury, Jacques Frmeaux, Jean-Jacques Jordi, Piotr Madajczyk, Jrgen Osterhammel, Steffen Prauser, Hassan Remaoun, Maren Rger, Andrea L. Smith, Philipp Ther, Gregor Thum, and Jakob Vogel, and to all the conference attendees for their comments and suggestions.

We would like to thank the anonymous Palgrave Macmillan reviewers, as well as Pertti Ahonen, Mathias Beer, Christopher Clark, Mihran Dabag, Constantin Goschler, Volker Heins, Mischa Honeck, Jean-Jacques Jordi, David Lazar, Fabian Lemmes, Till van Rahden, Andrea L. Smith, and Nina Verheyen for their valuable advice on the project and on drafts of several contributions. Moreover, we wish to thank John Tittensor for translating the chapters written by Michle Baussant, Etienne Franois, Eric Savarese, and Yann Scioldo-Zrcher, and the DHIP for providing funding for this. Working with Palgrave Macmillan, in particular Peter Cary, Lynda Cooper, Jenny McCall, and Jade Moulds, has been a pleasure. Special thanks go to Kevin Hall, Irina Kiauka, Till Knobloch, Ulrike Koppermann, Lennart Lein, Brian North, Sebastian Peters, Dorothea Rmer, Cora Schmitt-Ott, Patricia Sutcliff, and Lara Track for their crucial help in preparing the manuscript for publication.

Bochum/Washington, DC

Notes on Contributors

Pertti Ahonen is Professor of History at the University of Jyvskyl in Finland. He is primarily interested in the history of post-1945 Europe in general and Germany in particular. His main publications include the monographs After the Expulsion: West Germany and Eastern Europe, 19451990 (2004) and Death at the Berlin Wall (2010).

Shelley Baranowski is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the University of Akron, Ohio. As a specialist in Modern Germany, her most recent books are Nazi Empire: German Imperialism and Colonialism from Bismarck to Hitler (2011) and Strength through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich (2004). She is currently working on a book on Axis empires.

Michle Baussant is a Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She is currently working at the French Research Center in Jerusalem and is also affiliated to the Center for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology at University Paris X Nanterre. Her current research focuses on the memory dynamics of displaced persons and on the transmission of their experience. Her recent books are La situation des travailleurs migrants dans les prisons libanaises (2012, co-author) and Pieds-Noirs: mmoires dexils (2002).

Manuel Borutta is Assistant Professor for Mediterranean History at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. He is currently preparing a monograph on colonial and postcolonial entanglements between Southern France and Algeria. His recent publications include Antikatholizismus: Deutschland und Italien im Zeitalter der europischen Kulturkmpfe (2nd edn, 2011) and A Colonial Sea: The Mediterranean, 17981956 (2012, co-editor). He is currently preparing a monograph.

Frank Bsch is the Director of the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, and Professor for German and European History of the Twentieth Century at the University of Potsdam in Germany. He has published on the history of political parties and associations, global changes in the 1970s and 1980s, and the history of the media. His most recent book is