Patriotic Duty or Gestapo Methods? Dutch Resisters and the Re-occupation of Indonesia Peter Romijn, University of Amsterdam & NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies Why did the newly liberated Netherlands decide to go to war between 1945 and 1950,...
‘Lucky Victims’. German-Speaking Emigrants as Soldiers of Occupation in Germany after the Second World War Arvid Schors, University of Cologne In April 1945, the concentration camp Ahlem near Hanover in Germany was liberated by American troops. A 21 year old American...
Learning Occupation – Francis Thiallet and the History of France and Germany 1917-1957 Julia Wambach, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin The particularly dense history of mutual occupations between France and Germany in the first half of the 20th...
The Occupied become Occupiers – The Case of Maczków/Haren Samantha Knapton, University of Nottingham At the end of the Second World War, Allied-occupied Germany was described as ‘a sea of make-shift shanties’, ‘a kingdom of barracks’, and an ‘archipelago of displaced...
Revenge and Retribution in the Luxembourgish Occupation Zone in Germany (1945-46) Félix Streicher, Maastricht University On 11 and 13 November 1945, two infantry battalions (roughly 1,600 men) of the newly created Luxembourg Army occupied parts of the German...
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