CONFERENCE
Partisan
and Anti-partisan Warfare in German-Occupied Europe, 1939-1945
Glasgow Caledonian University, 21-22
June 2007
Organisers:
Dr Ben Shepherd, Glasgow Caledonian University
Dr Juliette Pattinson, University of Strathclyde
In association with
The German Historical Institute, London
The conference will present new research into the influences that
shaped partisan and anti-partisan warfare across different parts
of German-occupied Europe: military tactics and strategic aims;
ideology; the increasingly destructive nature of twentieth-century
warfare; conditions in the field; each side’s economic needs;
cultural and psychological factors, and the political structures
of the Third Reich and the occupied countries. Numerous papers
will analyse the interaction of partisan and/or anti-partisan
units with civilian populations, or the conflict from the viewpoint
of more than one side.
Professor Evan Mawdsley, author of
Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945, will be keynote
speaker at the conference.
Location
Glasgow Caledonian University, 70 Cowcaddens
Road, Glasgow G4 0BA.
Room details to follow in due course on the conference website
(see link below).
Thursday 21 June
10.00. Welcome and introduction (Ben Shepherd)
10.15-11.20. Keynote speaker. Chair: Andreas Gestrich
Evan Mawdsley: Anti-German rebellions and their place in Allied
grand strategy
11.45-1.20: Panel One – The Soviet
Union, Pt. I. Chair: Iain Lauchlan
Kenneth Slepyan: Trying to See Clearly
in a Twilight World:
Understanding Soviet Partisan and Civilian Relations in World
War II
Alexander Hill: The Soviet Partisan
Movement in North-West Russia 1941-1944
Jeff Rutherford: Soldiers into Nazis?
The German Infantry’s War against the Soviet Partisans in
North-West Russia
2.20 – 3.35: Panel Two –
The Soviet Union, Pt. 2. Chair: David Moon
Alex Statiev: Was Smuglianka a lunatic
or Siguranta’s agent-provocateur?
Peculiarities of the Soviet partisan struggle in the western borderlands
Alexander Brakel: The Relationship
between Soviet Partisans and the Civilian Population in Byelorussia
under German Occupation, 1941-1944
4.00 – 5.15: Panel Three – The German Order Police.
Chair: Donald Bloxham
Edward Westermann:
The German Police and Anti-Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union
Erich Haberer:
The German Gendarmerie and Soviet Partisans in Belorussia, 1941-1944
Meet at 6.15pm in the foyer to go to the Corinthian wine bar for
pre-dinner drinks
Friday 22 June
9.30 – 11.00: Panel Four – Yugoslavia. Chair: Klaus
Schmider
Walter Manoschek: ‘Hostages for
the good conduct of their race-comrades’:
A racist ideology of extermination as an Anti-Partisan-Warfare
in World War II.
The example of Serbia
Alexander Korb: Intertwined Genocides?
Violence against Serbs, Jews and Roma in the Independent State
of Croatia, 1941-1945
Gregor Kranjc: An Uncivil War of Ideas:
Partisan, German and Domobranci Propaganda in Occupied Slovenia,
1943-1945
11.30 – 12.45: Panel Five – Greece. Chair: Kostas
Gemenis
Florian Dierl: Collective violence
and individual scope of action:
Richard Sand and partisan warfare in Crete, 1941-1945
Vangelis Tzoukas: Bandits, partisans
and the Germans:
The case of Epirus in north-western Greece, 1942-44
1.45 – 3.00: Panel Six –
Italy. Chair: Phil Cooke
Michael Kelly: Women in the Italian
Resistance: The ‘Other’ Within?
Julie le Gac: Allies and Italian Partisans,
Fall 1943 – Summer 1944:
From Suspicion to Collaboration
3.25 – 5.00: Panel Seven – France. Chair: Steffan
Prauser (Birmingham)
John Hellman: The Chateau d'Uriage
during the German Occupation:
Training elites for Petain, the resistance, the Milice
Thomas Laub: Inter-agency Rivalry and
Anti-Partisan Policy in Occupied France
Peter Lieb: Repercussions of Eastern
Front Experiences on
Anti-partisan Warfare in France, 1944
5.00. Closing remarks (Juliette Pattinson)
and end of conference
The conference is being generously supported by the German Historical
Institute London, The German History Society and the Association
for the Study of Modern Italy. For further information, contact
details, and a registration form (closing date for registration:
21st May 2007), please visit the conference website at http://www.gcal.ac.uk/history/events/index.html
German History Society members are
entitled to a £5 discount on the £30 conference fee
(£15 fee for postgraduates).
CONFERENCE
Germany
1930-1990: Structures, lived experiences and historical representations
UCL and GHIL,
22-23 March 2007
This conference
explores the ways in which people of different social, generational
and political backgrounds sustained, lived through and variously
remembered the succeeding and contrasting regimes of the Third Reich,
the Federal Republic and the GDR; and it reflects more broadly on
the ways in which historians reconstruct and represent the continuities
and contrasts in political structures, ideologies, and cultures
of memory in Germany 1930 – 1990.
Locations:
• All the main conference sessions will be held at the German
Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1. The
GHIL will also very kindly provide refreshments throughout the conference.
• The film showing on Thursday evening will be in the Old
Refectory, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.
Thursday 22 March
(GHIL, 17 Bloomsbury
Square, London WC1)
2:00-2:30 Welcome
(Andreas Gestrich, Mark Hewitson, Mary Fulbrook)
Section I: Approaches
to history and cultures of memory Chair: Ian Kershaw
2:30-4:00 Mary
Fulbrook ‘History from within: Structures, lived experiences
and historical representations’
Norbert Frei,
‘Opferaustausch? Recent discourses on the victims of the Germans
and on the Germans as victims’
Hanna Schissler
‘Zeitgenossenschaft: Reflections on contemporary German history’
Section II: Repression,
power and ideology Chair: Andreas Gestrich
4:30-5:30 Nick
Stargardt, ‘Civilian morale during the war and the internalisation
of Nazi values’
Jens Gieseke,
‘Secret police and public opinion in a closed society: What
Stasi mood reports can (and cannot) tell’
5:30-7:00 Reception
hosted by the GHIL
Film Showing
(UCL Old Refectory)
7:30-9:00 Film:
Behind the Wall: ‘Perfectly Normal Lives’ in the GDR?
The world première of this new documentary film! Produced
by MacayaFilm with generous support from the AHRC, and shown in
conjunction with the UCL German Society. A ‘visual turn’
followed by discussion. Discussant: Josie McLellan
Friday 23 March
(GHIL, 17 Bloomsbury Square)
Section III:
Functionaries, regimes and everyday life
9:30-11:00 Chair:
Thomas Lindenberger
Jill Stephenson,
‘Zealots, incompetents, footdraggers: Local functionaries
in the Third Reich’
Esther von Richthofen,
‘Bending the rules while upholding the structures: Functionaries
and the management of cultural life in the GDR’
George Last ‘Social
courts, criminality and the resolution of social conflict in rural
communities in the GDR’
11:30-1:00 Chair:
Mark Allinson
Arnd Bauerkämper,
‘Path dependency and contingency: The tentacles of National
Socialism and departures in the two Germanies in comparative perspective’
Klaus Naumann,
‘From the war of extermination to the peace of the bomb: Biographies
of Bundeswehr generals in the context of changing regimes, institutions,
and generations’
Jeannette Madarász,
‘Kalenderblätter. Perceptions of everyday life in the
GDR’
Section IV: Private
lives, cultural representations and politics
2:00-3:30 Chair:
Mererid Puw Davies
Patrick Major,
‘Screening the Wehrmacht: Film representations of the “Good
German”’
Christiane Winkler,
‘Heimkehrer in East and West Germany’
Bill Niven, ‘The
influence of political and generational shifts on representations
of the theme of Vertreibung’
4:00-5:00 Chair:
Richard Bessel
Paul Betts, ‘Cold
War civility: West and East German etiquette books after 1945’
Dorothee Wierling,
‘Sex, liberation and unification: Ego-documents and the GDR’
Section V: Concluding
discussion: Germany 1930-1990 revisited
5:15-6:30 Chair:
Mark Hewitson
Final discussion
panel: Thomas Lindenberger, Alf Lüdtke, Josie McLellan
The conference
has been generously supported by Marie Curie funding for the UCL
Centre for European Studies, the German Historical Institute London,
the Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Germany) and the German History Society.
There is no charge for conference attendance, but those wishing
to attend must register with Christiane
Winkler no later than 14 March 2007 to facilitate catering arrangements.
CALL
FOR PARTICIPATION
SIXTH WORKSHOP
ON EARLY MODERN GERMAN HISTORY
Friday 19 October 2007
German Historical Institute London
General Aim
The first workshop ran in 2002 and has now established itself
as the principal forum for cross-disciplinary discussion of new
research on early modern German-speaking Central Europe. Previous
themes have included artistic and literary representations, medicine
and musicology, as well as political, social, economic and religious
history. Contributions are welcome from those wishing to range
outside the period generally considered as ‘early modern’,
and from those engaged in comparative research on other parts
of early modern Europe. The Workshop is sponsored by the German
History Society, and the German Historical Institute and participation
is free, including lunch.
Format
The day will be organised as a series of themed workshops, each
introduced by a panel chair and consisting of two to three short
papers and a general discussion. The point of the papers is to
present new findings or work-in-progress in summary form, rather
than extended detailed discussion. Accordingly, participants are
encouraged to:
• keep to 10 minutes
• highlight major findings or questions
• indicate how work might develop in the future
• provide a short outline (no more than 1 side of A4) in
advance for distribution to participants
The day will start around 10 am and finish around 5pm.
historia Poznania | nieruchomości Olsztyn | nieruchomości | Ciekawe miejsca w Poznaniu How to take part
If you are interested in presenting a short paper, please send
a short synopsis by 31 May 2007 to:
Prof Peter H. Wilson
Dept. of History
University of Hull
Hull, HU6 7RX
Email: p.h.wilson@hull.ac.uk
If you are interested in attending
as a participant, please contact:
Dr Michael Schaich
German Historical Institute
17 Bloomsbury Square
London, WC1A 2NJ
Email: schaich@ghil.ac.uk
The German History
Society would welcome proposals for conferences for 2007/8.
Please
contact the Secretary for further details.
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