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- Title
Johannes Großmann, Zwischen Fronten. Die deutsch-französische Grenzregion und der Weg in den Zweiten Weltkrieg. (Moderne Zeit. Neue Forschungen zur Gesellschafts- und Kulturgeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Bd. XXXIV.) Göttingen, Wallstein 2022
- Authors
Pestel, Friedemann
- Abstract
The book "Between Fronts. The German-French Border Region and the Path to World War II" by Johannes Großmann examines the German-French border region in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The book is part of a collaborative project on evacuations in the German-French border area during World War II. The author takes a transnational perspective on the political-geographical production of borderlands and the evacuations and return of civilian populations during the war. The book offers new insights into the path to World War II and the early phase of the war. It also sheds light on the experiences of the evacuees and the reconfiguration of the border after 1940. Despite some conceptual indecisiveness and limited connections to other experiences of violence and forced migration during the war, the book makes an important contribution to German-French relationship history and emphasizes the importance of processes of disentanglement.
- Subjects
ZWISCHEN Fronten: Die deutsch-franzosische Grenzregion und der Weg in den Zweiten Weltkrieg (Book); CIVILIAN evacuation; GROSSMANN, Johannes; FORCED migration; WORLD War II; BORDERLANDS; NONFICTION; WAR; PERSPECTIVE taking
- Publication
Historische Zeitschrift, 2023, Vol 317, Issue 3, p771
- ISSN
0018-2613
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1515/hzhz-2023-1371