Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France

Manuel Borutta is Assistant Professor for Mediterranean history at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. Among his recent publications are A Colonial Sea: The Mediterranean, 1798-1956 (2012, co-editor with Sakis Gekas), and Antikatholizismus: Deutschland und Italien im Zeitalter der europäischen Kulturkämpfe (2011). Jan C. Jansen is Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, USA. He is the author of Erobern und Erinnern: Symbolpolitik, öffentlicher Raum und französischer Kolonialismus in Algerien 1830-1950 (2013) and co-author, with Jürgen Osterhammel, of Kolonialismus: Geschichte, Formen, Folgen (2012) and Dekolonisation: Das Ende der Imperien (2013).

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