ISBN:
9781009048446
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 312 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First paperback edition
Series Statement:
New studies in European history
DDC:
304.809498
Keywords:
20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
;
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
;
European history
;
Europäische Geschichte
;
HISTORY / Europe / General
;
Social & cultural history
;
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
Abstract:
Romanian Germans, mainly from the Banat and Transylvania, have occupied a place at the very heart of major events in Europe in the twentieth century yet their history is largely unknown. This east-central European minority negotiated their standing in a difficult new European order after 1918, changing from uneasy supporters of Romania, to zealous Nazis, tepid Communists, and conciliatory Europeans. Migrating Memories is the first comprehensive study in English of Romanian Germans and follows their stories as they move across borders and between regimes, revealing a very European experience of migration, minorities, and memories in modern Europe. After 1945, Romanian Germans struggled to make sense of their lives during the Cold War at a time when the community began to fracture and fragment. The Revolutions of 1989 seemed to mark the end of the German community in Romania, but instead Romanian Germans repositioned themselves as transnational European bridge-builders, staking out new claims in a fast-changing world
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Stories, identities, memories; 1. Making Romanian Germans; 2. Transnational Germans; 3. Fascist divisions in the Romanian German past; 4. The iron memory curtain: Romanian Germans and Communism; 5. European bridge-builders: Romanian Germans after 1989; Epilogue: The perpetual exodus.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 261-304
DOI:
10.1017/9781009047449
URL:
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