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- Title
The Repatriation of Soviet Prisoners of War and Displaced Peoples from the Auvergne after the Second World War.
- Authors
Burgess, Greg
- Abstract
The repatriation of prisoners of war and displaced persons liberated during the allied advance across France in 1944 is a little examined issue in the history of Liberation France. Soviet prisoners of war and other displaced Soviet nationals were placed in camps until their repatriation could be arranged with the Soviet government. The repatriations from the Auvergne provide one of the better documented histories of the politics of repatriation. This article examines the issues faced in the Auvergne with the presence of many thousands of Soviet nationals awaiting return to the Soviet Union, and the larger context in which the repatriations took place. It argues that the repatriations had an important role in the reformation and consolidation of political and administrative structures through the vertical integration of the state from the periphery to the center, and therefore helped assert post-war Republican sovereignty.
- Subjects
FRANCE; WORLD War II -- Reparations; PRISONERS &; prisons in World War II; WORLD War II
- Publication
French History & Civilization, 2017, Vol 7, p169
- ISSN
1832-9683
- Publication type
Article