Au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des millions d'etrangers se trouvent sur le sol allemand : anciens travailleurs forces, rescapes des camps nazis ou deracines aux profils multiples. La plupart d'entre eux sont rapatries apres la capitulation allemande, mais presque un million de personnes deplacees (Displaced Persons - DPs), effrayes par l'antisemitisme a l'Est de l'Europe, ou redoutant la montee des regimes communistes, refusent de rentrer dans leur patrie. C'est donc dans les trois zones occidentales de l'Allemagne occupee, exsangue et traversee par des flux incessants, que les DPs vivent pendant plusieurs mois ou annees. Leur histoire est multiple et ils en sont a la fois les objets et les acteurs. Cet ouvrage, rassemblant des contributions en trois langues (francais, anglais, allemand), croise les perspectives entre histoire politique et internationale, histoire des migrations, analyses culturelles et etudes des representations. Il permet de saisir les interactions entre les decisions internationales, les imperatifs des pays d'origine des DPs mais aussi ceux des pays d'immigration, les realites de l'Allemagne occupee et les besoins et esperances des DPs eux-memes. Entre sortie du conflit mondial et debut de guerre froide se nouent autour des DPs les grandes problematiques politiques et humaines qui forgent l'histoire des deplacements et du refuge. In the aftermath of the Second World War, millions of foreign civilians found themselves in the German territory. Among them, there were former forced laborers, survivors from the Nazi camps, many uprooted migrants who had all experienced the war in different ways. Most of them were repatriated after the German capitulation. However, almost one million of these "Displaced Persons" (DPs) refused to go back to their homeland. They were scarred by anti-Semitic violence, or by the rise of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. For a few months, even a few years, they remained mostly in the Western zones of occupied Germany, facing the harsh post-war conditions of defeated Germany. DPs became both targets and actors of global politics dealing with the refugee problem. This book puts together articles in three languages (French, English, and German). The contributions reveal the DPs' history from different points of view. They rely on the history of international relations at the end of the war and of the various states involved in the DP question, as well as on social and cultural studies. The diversity of methodological patterns allows for a broad comprehension of this singular story at different scales, from the international debates and tensions to the needs and the hopes of the DPs themselves, in the social and political context of post-war occupied Germany. As the end of the war led to the Cold War, the DP question raised most of the political and humanitarian issues that would continue to interfere with the management of population displacements and refugees until the present day. Am Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges befanden sich einige Millionen Auslander auf deutschem Boden: ehemalige Zwangsarbeiter, UEberlebende der NS-Lager und andere entwurzelte Personen. Die meisten von ihnen kehrten nach der deutschen Kapitulation in ihre Heimat zuruck; zuruck blieben hingegen fast eine Million Displaced Persons (DPs), die den Antisemitismus in Osteuropa oder den Aufstieg der kommunistischen Regime in diesen Landern furchteten, so dass sie sich weigerten, in ihre Ursprungslander zuruckzukehren. Sie fanden sich schliesslich fur mehrere Monate oder gar Jahre in den drei westdeutschen Besatzungszonen wieder, die von den Kriegsfolgen gezeichnet waren und mehrere Millionen von Fluchtlingen aufnehmen mussten. Ihre Geschichte ist vielfaltig; bisweilen wird

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ISBN 9782875742162
Author Corine Defrance
Format Paperback
Page Count 420
Imprint Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publisher Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Weight(grams) 590g