Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Demshuk, Andrew

Titel

Citizens in Name Only: The National Status of German Expellees, 1945-53

Ist Teil von

• Ethnopolitics, 2006-11, Vol.5 (4), p.383-397

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Rogers Brubaker has argued that the German ethnic conception of citizenship, forged in a 1913 law, was 'nourished' after World War II, when ethnic German expellees and refugees entering the western occupation zones were given equal citizenship with those native to the west. This paper contends that the supposed straight line from 1913 to 1953 was in fact bent by the considerable events of the immediate postwar period. Postwar German citizenship laws cannot be understood without giving attention to the policies under military occupation, just as later German ethno-cultural self-identity must be qualified by first recognizing the extreme divisions within German society that resulted from the expulsion.