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Die parlamentarische Vertretung der Heimatvertriebenen
2014
Dieser Artikel setzt sich mit den vielfältigen Versuchen der Heimatvertriebenen auseinander, sich in den westdeutschen Institutionen Gehör zu verschaffen. Von Forderungen nach Sitzen im Bundesrat über die Schaffung mächtiger Interessenvertretungen, um die Außenpolitik der Bundesregierung zu beeinflussen, bis zur Gründung einer den Anliegen der Vertriebenen verpflichteten Partei haben sich die Heimatvertriebenen unaufhörlich engagiert, um das Rad der Geschichte zurückzudrehen.
On Forced Migrations: Transnational Realities and National Narratives in Post-1945 (West) Germany
2014
This article examines tensions between the transnational realities of the extensive forced migrations that accompanied the end of the Second World War in Europe and the nationally focused public portrayals of those forced migrations that have prevailed in individual European countries since the war. The article does so through a case study of West Germany, which became home to some eight million forced migrants defined as ethnic Germans. It argues that a nationally oriented, highly selective public narrative of the forced migrations soon emerged in the Federal Republic, a narrative that stressed German suffering, relativized German crimes, and, crucially, elided differences among the forced…
La circulation de l'information dans la presse des expulsés
2016
This article is aimed at analysing the circulation of the information flow in the press of expellees. From press releases of the Landsmannschaften, of the BdV or the political parties, over travel journals from local associations or texts from readers, content of journals is rarely written from the editors of newspapers. In this niche in the medias placed out of the mass medias, the interactions between the different titles are unavoidable, they are even desirable to support this economically weak sector. A case study will show how the circulation of information allows enrichment of the publications but also how if it leads to a retreat of this press section.
Le rôle déterminant de la presse dans la vie des expulsés allemands
2016
This article focuses on the identity of the German expellees after World War II through the study of one of their publications, the Grafschafter Bote. For this population who is spread geographically all over Germany, the newspapers published by numerous associations have contributed to the creation and the maintaining of a collective identity able to sustain its position in the new German state. These newspapers still exist today and contribute to the strengthening of a particular identity.
Erika Steinbach: The Last Charismatic Representative of the Expellees?
2015
International audience; This paper aims to show how Erika Steinbach, at the head of the BdV (Federation of Deportees) since 1998, has come to embody in person this large social group, in the eyes of the media and of various institutions. No stranger to controversy, she represents the hereditary German enemy in Poland (thus plaguing German diplomatic relations with the country) and is strongly rejected by certain parts of the population while being unconditionally supported by the deportees themselves. The ambiguous role played by this political figure will be shown through the analysis of quarrels surrounding the inauguration of a memorial to the deportees. Steinbach has been both the drivi…