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"Those People Who Actually Do the Job…" Unaccompanied Children, Relief Workers, and the Struggle of Implementing Humanitarian Policy in Postwar Germany
'Diejenigen, die die Arbeit wirklich machen...' Unbegleitete Kinder, Sozialarbeiter und die schwierige Umsetzung humanitärer Ziele im Nachkriegsdeutschland
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Abstract The youngest survivors of Nazi persecution had experienced a variety of tragic fates: children lived through the horrors of the concentration camps, endured forced labor, and even kidnapping for the so-called Germanization agenda of the Nazis. From 1945 onwards, the military and relief agencies in o... mehr
The youngest survivors of Nazi persecution had experienced a variety of tragic fates: children lived through the horrors of the concentration camps, endured forced labor, and even kidnapping for the so-called Germanization agenda of the Nazis. From 1945 onwards, the military and relief agencies in occupied Germany witnessed the aftereffects of hitherto unparalleled crimes against children. They devised strategies aimed at their care, repatriation, and resettlement. As this article will show, it was by no means always possible to carry out this task successfully. Policies created at the administrative level frequently clashed with the reality of everyday relief work. This article reflects on the current state of historical research regarding displaced children, and in particular the potential of microhistory as a means of improving our knowledge about this aspect of the postwar period. By drawing upon the example of the IRO Children’s Village in Bad Aibling, Upper Bavaria, the discrepancy between official policy and the actual struggle in the field - including ideological factors, practical challenges, and the human element - is illustrated. In doing so, the aim is to help refine previous narratives regarding the care for displaced children in the postwar period.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Kindeswohl; Vertriebener; Kinderbetreuung; Kind; Nachkriegszeit
Klassifikation
allgemeine Geschichte
Freie Schlagwörter
World War II; postwar period; displaced children; UNRRA; IRO; IRO children’s village; microhistory
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 226-243
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 45 (2020) 4
Heftthema
Violence Induced Mobility
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.45.2020.4.226-243
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)