Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany

Politics, Everyday Life and Social Interactions, 1945-55

Dr. Camilo Erlichman, Christopher Knowles (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-15132-1 (ISBN)

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Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany provides an in-depth transnational study of power politics, daily life, and social interactions in the Western Zones of occupied Germany during the aftermath of the Second World War.

Combining a history from below with a top-down perspective, the volume explores the origins, impacts, and legacies of the occupations of the western zones of Germany by the United States, Britain and France, examining complex yet topical issues that often arise as a consequence of war including regime change, transitional justice, everyday life under occupation, the role of intermediaries, and the multifaceted relationship between occupiers and occupied. Adopting a novel set of approaches that puts questions of power, social relations, gender, race, and the environment centre stage, it moves beyond existing narratives to place the occupation within a broader framework of continuity and change in post-war western Europe.

Incorporating essays from 16 international scholars, this volume provides a substantial contribution to the emerging fields of occupation studies and the comparative history of post-war Europe.

Camilo Erlichman is Assistant Professor in History at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Christopher Knowles is Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, UK, Archives By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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Part I: Contextualising Occupation
1. Introduction: Reframing Occupation as a System of Rule (Camilo Erlichman, Leiden University, The Netherlands and Christopher Knowles, King's College London, UK)
2. Preoccupied: Wartime Training for Post-War Occupation in the United States, 1940-45 (Susan L. Carruthers, University of Warwick, UK)
3. Benign Occupations: The Allied Occupation of Germany and the International Law of Occupation (Peter M. R. Stirk, Durham University, UK)

Part II: The Past in the Present: Transitional Justice and Managing the Nazi Legacy
4. Transitional Justice? Denazification in the US Zone of Occupied Germany (Rebecca Boehling, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
5. The Allied Internment of German Civilians in Occupied Germany: Cooperation and Conflict in the Western Zones, 1945-1949 (Andrew H. Beattie, University of New South Wales, Australia)
6. What Do You Do with a Dead Nazi? Allied Policy on the Execution and Disposal of War Criminals, 1945-55 (Caroline Sharples, University of Roehampton, UK)

Part III: Doing Occupation: Image and Reality
7. ‘My Home, your Castle’: British Requisitioning of German Homes in Westphalia (Bettina Blum, Cultural Office at the City of Paderborn, Germany)
8. Game Plan for Democracy: Sport and Youth in Occupied West Germany (Heather L. Dichter, De Montfort University, UK)
9. Occupying the Environment: German Hunters and the American Occupation (Douglas Bell, Texas A&M University, USA)

Part IV: Experiencing Occupation: Daily Life and Personal Relationships
10. The Sexualized Landscape of Post-War Germany and the Politics of Cross-Racial Intimacy in the American Zone (Nadja Klopprogge, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
11. Shared Spaces: Social Encounters between French and Germans in Occupied Freiburg, 1945-55 (Ann-Kristin Glöckner, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
12. ‘Gosh… I Think I’m in a Dream!!’: Subjective Experiences and Daily Life in the British Zone (Daniel Cowling, University of Cambridge, UK)

Part V: Mediating Occupation: Interactions, Intermediaries, and Legacies
13. ‘We are Glad They are Here, but We are Not Rejoicing!’ The Catholic Clergy under French and American Occupation (Johannes Kuber, RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
14. From Denazification to Renazification? West German Government Officials after 1945 (Dominik Rigoll, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, Germany)
15. The Value of Knowledge: Western Intelligence Agencies and Former Members of the SS, Gestapo and Wehrmacht during the Early Cold War (Michael Wala, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

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Erscheinungsdatum	31.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	14 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-15132-7 / 1350151327
ISBN-13	978-1-350-15132-1 / 9781350151321
Zustand	Neuware