Occupiers, Humanitarian Workers, and Polish Displaced Persons in British-Occupied Germany
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-5266-2928-9 (ISBN)
From the everyday experience of clothing, feeding and sheltering to governmental policies and military actions, Occupiers, Humanitarian Workers and the Polish Displaced Persons in British-Occupied Germany investigates the impact of occupation on post-war refugees and explores how the birth of state-driven international humanitarianism played a vital role in both the identity of the Polish people and the reconstruction of Germany. To do so, Knapton fuses together archival material and personal collections such as memoirs, letters and diaries to present an account which considers both the macro and micro issues of displacement, occupation and humanitarianism. The result is a sophisticated analysis of Anglo-Polish-German relations in post-war Europe which will be of immense value to all scholars of modern Europe, Polish history, and displacement studies more generally.
Samantha K. Knapton is Assistant Professor in History at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is the co-editor, along with Katherine Rossy, of Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World?: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction
1. 'They say the British has the Ruins': The Post-War Situation in the British Zone of Occupied Germany
2. 'A Paradoxical People': Understanding Polish Displaced Persons
3. 'Little Poland' in Germany: Life in Polish Displaced Persons Camps
4. 'There are always two sides to everything': Encounters between the British Military, Humanitarian Workers and Displaced Persons
5. 'No special obligation... We did not take them to Germany': Repatriation and Resettlement of Polish Displaced persons
6. Idleness Bred Apathy: Displaced Persons Left in the Camps
7. From Displaced Persons to Homeless Foreigners: The 'Hard Core of DPs Left in Germany
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.08.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | 2 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5266-2928-3 / 1526629283 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5266-2928-9 / 9781526629289 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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