Laure Humbert

Reinventing French Aid (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of Humanitarian Relief in French-Occupied Germany, 1945-1952

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108924573
• Artikelnr.: 62746955

Autorenporträt

Laure Humbert is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Politics of Relief: 1. The Politics of
Immigration: Unwanted Wartime Collaborators or Ideal White Settlers?; 2. In
the Shadow of Nazi Occupation: Making and Overseeing DP Camps; 3. The
Politics of Neutrality: Repatriating and Screening DPs in the Early Cold
War; Part II. Reconstructing the Body, Rehabilitating the Mind: 4. The
'Broken' DP: 'Remaking' the Minds and Bodies of Refugees; 5.
'Rehabilitation' through Work? Vocational Training and DP Employment; 6.
Transforming DPs into French Citizens? The Resettlement of DPs in France;
Conclusion.