Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France, 1st ed. 2016 Comparative Perspectives

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).

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-Zürcher

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 Bösch
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; Michèle 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 François