{"id":626,"date":"2022-01-25T07:11:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T07:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/website.prod.unilu.spikeseed.cloud\/c2dh-en\/news\/cfp-the-impact-of-war-experiences-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T15:47:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T14:47:19","slug":"cfp-the-impact-of-war-experiences-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/news\/cfp-the-impact-of-war-experiences-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"CfP: The impact of war experiences in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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CfP: The impact of war experiences in Europe \u2013 The conscription of non-German men and women into the Wehrmacht<\/i> and Reichsarbeitsdienst<\/i> (1938-1945).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In connection with the WARLUX<\/a> research project, launched in 2020 at the University of Luxembourg, this conference focuses on the impact of war experiences on non-German nationals serving in the Nazi German armed forces and labour organisations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conscription of these non-German nationals, considered by the Nazis as \u201cdeutsche Volkszugeh\u00f6rige<\/i>\u201d or \u201cDeutschst\u00e4mmige<\/i>\u201d,1<\/sup> violated international law. In politics, society and research, various terms have come into use for the men and women affected by conscription: for example, “Zwangsrekrutierte”\/”Ons Jongen” in Luxembourg, “incorpor\u00e9s de force”\/”malgr\u00e9-nous” in France and “Zwangssoldaten” in Belgium. However, these terms describe the mass of people involved. Initial studies and transnational comparisons (QUADFLIEG (2008); STROH\/QUADFLIEG (2017); MAR\u0160\u00c1LEK\/NEMIN\u00c1\u0158 (2021)2<\/sup> have focused mainly on the top-down perspective. The conference will shed light on individuals and their biographies, exploring the tense situations in which they found themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WARLUX project and the planned conference place individuals and their families in the foreground. It was not just the individuals who were called up to the Reichsarbeitsdienst<\/i> (RAD), the Kriegshilfsdienst<\/i> (KHD) and the Wehrmacht<\/i> who were affected; their families and communities also had to respond to the conscription of their family members. In some occupied regions or countries, the families of deserters and men who went into hiding were resettled and their property confiscated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, adopting an actor-centred approach by focusing on ego-documents to observe individual experiences is key to understanding the diversity and heterogeneity of the war experiences of these men and women. To this end, papers that address methodologies and the use of ego-documents (letters, diaries and memoirs) to study individuals are especially welcome. We are also particularly interested in research looking at the female perspective within our target group and papers that explore the under-researched group of female conscripts to the RAD\/KHD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference invites proposals for papers from a variety of disciplinary and comparative perspectives with the potential to offer substantive new insights into the use of biographical approaches to study the individual war experiences of this affected group in different occupied territories. Proposals from both established and early career scholars are welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference will focus on the following areas of investigation but is not necessarily limited to these topics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actor-centred approach\/ego-documents from conscripts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n