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

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Comparing Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs: Introduction....Pages 1-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Legacies of Lebensraum: German Identity and Multi-Ethnicity....Pages 35-52
The Birth of the Hexagon: 1962 and the Erasure of France’s Supranational History....Pages 53-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Assimilation versus Incorporation: Expellee Integration Policies in East and West Germany after 1945....Pages 73-94
The Postcolonial Repatriations of the French of Algeria in 1962: An Emblematic Case of a Public Integration Policy....Pages 95-112
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The German Expellee Organizations: Unity, Division, and Function....Pages 115-132
Unity above all? Relationships and Rivalries within the Pied-Noir Community....Pages 133-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
The Political Integration of the Expellees in Postwar West Germany....Pages 153-172
The Pieds-Noirs and French Political Life, 1962–2015....Pages 173-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Homeland Corners: Memories, Objects, and Emotions of Expellees in Postwar West Germany....Pages 193-211
Pied-Noir Pilgrimages, Commemorative Spaces, and Counter-Memory....Pages 212-229
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Towards a European Memory of Forced Migration? Processes of Institutionalization and Musealization in Germany and Poland....Pages 233-251
Memory Lobbying and the Shaping of ‘Colonial Memories’ in France since the 1990s: The Local, the National, and the International....Pages 252-271
Comparison — the Way to Understanding: Conclusions....Pages 272-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-300