
Outcast Europe
Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War 1936-48
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Published on 19. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
344 pages
978-1-4411-0244-7 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
The aim of this book is to reconsider the complex journeys undertaken by European refugees and the relationships between refugees and relief workers... The research...is impressive. -- Peter Gatrell, University of Manchester, UK * European History Quarterly *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
573 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-0244-7 (9781441102447)
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Additional editions

Sharif Gemie | Laure Humbert | Fiona Reid
Outcast Europe
Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War 1936-48
E-Book
11/2011
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€39.99
Available for download

Sharif Gemie | Laure Humbert | Fiona Reid
Outcast Europe
Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War 1936-48
E-Book
11/2011
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Continuum
€39.99
Available for download
Persons
Laure Humbert is a research assistant at the University of Glamorgan, UK. Dr Fiona Reid is Lecturer at the University of Glamorgan. Her research areas include the social history of WWI and the remembrance and commemoration of war. Sharif Gemie is Reader in History at the University of Glamorgan, UK. He has published widely on modern European history and recent published books include French Revolutions 1815 - 1914: An Introduction (1999) and French Muslims: New Voices in Contemporary France (2010).
Content
Introduction; Part I - The Midnight of the Century; 1. The Retirada; 2. Evacuation of France 1939-40; 3. Exodus: French Internal Refugees 1940; 4. After the Exodus; Part II - False Dawn; 5. The Lessons of War; 6. In Darkest Germany; 7. UNRRA and Zionism; 8. Recreating the Nation; 9. Postscript: From UNRRA to IRO and Beyond; Conclusions: the Citizen and the Refugee.