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).

“This volume nonetheless constitutes a highly valuable collection of essays. It brings together many of the best-known experts on either subject and showcases the increasingly sophisticated, critical, and professional character of research in these fields in recent years.” (Gaëlle Fisher, H-Nationalism, H-Net Reviews, February2018)“Articles are supremely researched, compelling, and enjoyable to read. … This book provides a rich comparative study, the first of its kind, and certainly the first in English … to address two lesser known populations of migrants who had and continue to have an important role in the national identities of France and Germany. Specialists in migration studies, diaspora and memory studies, as well as the unversed in the history of the Pieds-Noirs and Vertriebene, will find this book useful.” (Amy L. Hubbell, EuropeNow Journal, europenowjournal.org, April, 2017)

• Introduction: Comparing Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs; Manuel Borutta and Jan C. JansenPART I: FROM EMPIRE TO NATION-STATE: 1945 AND 19621. Legacies of Lebensraum: German Identity and Multiethnicity; Shelley Baranowski2. The Birth of the Hexagon: 1962 and the Erasure of France's Supranational History; Todd ShepardPART II: REPATRIATION AND INTEGRATION 3. Assimilation versus Incorporation: Expellee Integration Policies in East and West Germany after 1945; Michael Schwartz4. The Postcolonial Repatriations of the French of Algeria: An Emblematic Case of a Public Integration Policy; Yann Scioldo-ZürcherPART III: SELF-ORGANIZATION AND REPRESENTATION 5. The German Expellee Organizations: Unity, Division, and Function; Pertti Ahonen6. Unity above all? Relationships and Rivalries within the Pied-Noir Community; Claire EldridgePART IV: POLITICAL IMPACT AND PARTICIPATION 7. The Political Integration of the Expellees in Postwar West Germany; Frank Bösch8. The Pieds-Noirs and French Political Life, 1962-2015; Eric SavaresePART V: COMMEMORATIVE PRACTICES AND EMOTIONS 9. Homeland Corners: Memories, Objects, and Emotions of Expellees in Postwar West Germany; Tobias Weger10. Pied-Noir Pilgrimages, Commemorative Spaces, and Counter-Memory; Michèle BaussantPART VI: POLITICS OF REMEMBRANCE11. Towards a European Memory of Forced Migration? Processes of Institutionalization and Musealization in Germany and Poland; Stefan Troebst12. Memory Lobbying and the Shaping of 'Colonial Memories' in France since 1990: the Local, the National, and the International; Jan C. JansenConclusions: Comparison – the Way to Understanding; Etienne François