The First Allied Occupation in Western Europe? Some Considerations of the Italian Experience as a “Hybrid Case” (1943-1945) Fabio De Ninno, University of Siena To understand the peculiarities of Italian civilians’ experience of occupation during the Second World...
Workshop Report: Informal Communication in Occupied Societies Caroline Mezger, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich Between November 23 and 25, 2022, the INFOCOM Project (based at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich) held its third international...
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...
The Lived Experience: Personal Memories of Occupation in the British Zone of Germany after the Second World War Bettina Blum, Paderborn University Military occupation can be considered as a distinctive system of rule, shaped by dynamic power relations between...
On Horses and Bases: Traces of the American Occupation in Contemporary Germany Adam Seipp, Texas A&M University The horse is staring at me. I do not think that he has any ill intentions, but he is quite large and I am definitely an interloper in his...
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