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Laure Humbert explores how humanitarian aid in occupied Germany was
influenced by French politics of national recovery and Cold War
rivalries. She examines the everyday encounters between French
officials, members of new international organizations, relief
workers, defeated Germans and Displaced Persons, who remained in
the territory of the French zone prior to their repatriation or
emigration. By rendering relief workers and Displaced Persons
visible, she sheds lights on their role in shaping relief practices
and addresses the neglected issue of the gendering of
rehabilitation. In doing so, Humbert highlights different cultures
of rehabilitation, in part rooted in pre-war ideas about
'overcoming' poverty and war-induced injuries and, crucially, she
unearths the active and bottom-up nature of the restoration of
France's prestige. Not only were relief workers concerned about the
image of France circulating in DP camps, but they also drew DP
artists into the orbit of French cultural diplomacy in Germany.
Laure Humbert explores how humanitarian aid in occupied Germany was
influenced by French politics of national recovery and Cold War
rivalries. She examines the everyday encounters between French
officials, members of new international organizations, relief
workers, defeated Germans and Displaced Persons, who remained in
the territory of the French zone prior to their repatriation or
emigration. By rendering relief workers and Displaced Persons
visible, she sheds lights on their role in shaping relief practices
and addresses the neglected issue of the gendering of
rehabilitation. In doing so, Humbert highlights different cultures
of rehabilitation, in part rooted in pre-war ideas about
'overcoming' poverty and war-induced injuries and, crucially, she
unearths the active and bottom-up nature of the restoration of
France's prestige. Not only were relief workers concerned about the
image of France circulating in DP camps, but they also drew DP
artists into the orbit of French cultural diplomacy in Germany.
The period of the 'long' Second World War (1936-1948) was marked by
mass movements of diverse populations: 60 million people either
fled or were forced from their homes. This book considers the
Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's Spain in 1939, the French
civilians trying to escape the Nazi invasion in 1940, and the
millions of people displaced or expelled by the forces of Hitler's
Third Reich. Throughout this period state and voluntary
organisations were created to take care of the homeless and the
displaced. National organisations dominated until the end of the
war; afterwards, international organisations - the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Agency and the International Refugee
Organisation - were formed to deal with what was clearly an
international problem.Using case studies of displaced people and of
relief workers, this book is unique in placing such crises at the
centre rather than the margins of wartime experience, making the
work nothing less than an alternative history of the Second World
War.>
This is an original perspective on the experience of refugees and
relief workers. The period of the 'long' Second World War
(1936-1948) was marked by mass movements of diverse populations: 60
million people either fled or were forced from their homes. This
book considers the Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's Spain in
1939, the French civilians trying to escape the Nazi invasion in
1940, and the millions of people displaced or expelled by the
forces of Hitler's Third Reich. Throughout this period state and
voluntary organisations were created to take care of the homeless
and the displaced. National organisations dominated until the end
of the war; afterwards, international organisations - the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency and the International
Refugee Organisation - were formed to deal with what was clearly an
international problem. Using case studies of displaced people and
of relief workers, this book is unique in placing such crises at
the centre rather than the margins of wartime experience, making
the work nothing less than an alternative history of the Second
World War.
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