Outcast Europe
Subtitle: refugees and relief workers in an era of total war, 1936-48
By: Sharif Gemie ... [et al.].
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781441115454; 9781441102447
Subjects: Civilian relief; Government policy; World War, 1939-1945; Flüchtling; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; Refugees; History
Other titles: Refugees and relief workers in an era of total war, 1936-48
Description: "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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: The Inner World of the Refugee; title: Defining Refugees; title: Writing Refugees; title: Historians and Refugees; title: The Great Journey: Transformative Movement and the Second World War; title: pt. 1 The Midnight Of The Century; title: 1.The Retirada: Spanish Republican Refugees, 1939; title: The Refugees' War; title: Images of France; title: Organizing the Retirada; title: The French Reception: Watching the War; title: The French Reception: Organizing Welfare; title: The French Reception: The Spanish Experience; title: The French Reception: Controlling the Flood; title: Conclusion; title: 2.At the Limits of the Nation State: French Evacuations, 1939-1940; title: Planning Evacuation; title: Evacuation in Wartime; title: Preparing for the Evacuees; title: Evacuation Stories; title: Reception and a New Life; title: Alsace and Lorraine after the Evacuation; title: Conclusion; title: 3.The Exodus: French Internal Refugees, 1940; title: The Broken Hinge; title: May 1940; title: Soldiers and Civilians: Encounters on the Road; title: Images of the Crowd: The Mindless Underworld; title: Making Sense of the Exode; title: Solidarity on the Road; title: Conclusion; title: 4.After the Exodus: Return, Expulsion and Escape; title: The Challenges of Return; title: Returning Home; title: Other Journeys: Continuing Southwards; title: Other Journeys: V̀isa: A Hundred-Act Vexation'; title: A Second Exode? The Expulsions of Alsatians and Mosellans; title: Conclusion; title: pt. 2 False Dawn; title: 5.Lessons Unlearned: Wartime Debates and the Creation of UNRRA; title: Ending Another War; title: Neutrality and Commitment: the Red Cross and UNRRA; title: Planning UNRRA; title: Criticizing UNRRA, Defending UNRRA; title: Recording UNRRA: Beyond Bureaucracy; title: Joining UNRRA; title: UNRRA at Granville; title: Zones and Organizations; title: Conclusion; title: 6.Into Darkest Germany; title: Travelling into Germany; title: Finding the Camps; title: Documents and DPs; title: The Status of the Relief Worker; title: Frauleins, Girls and Ladies: Women Relief Workers; title: Requisitioning, Scrounging and the Black Market; title: Helping the People Help Themselves; title: Dedication and Commitment; title: Conclusion; title: 7.In the Camps; title: The Politics of Empathy; title: The Politics of Critique; title: A Liberation that was not a Liberation; title: DPs and Nationality; title: Protests, Initiatives and National Resurgence; title: DPs and Relief Workers; title: Conclusion; title: 8.Other Paths: Returning to Nationhood; title: Returning to Poland; title: R̀eturning' to Israel; title: Conclusion.