International conference organised by the C²DH WARLUX team.
In connection with the WARLUX research project, launched in 2020 at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) / University of Luxembourg, we are pleased to invite you to our international conference on 26-28 October 2022. The conference will focus on the impact of war experiences of non-German nationals serving in the Nazi German armed forces and labour organisations.
The conference will be organised in a hybrid mode, which will allow for both physical and online participation.
Please register here.
For more information please contact: warlux@uni.lu
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 26 October
17.30
Arrival & Registration
18.00
Welcome by Denis Scuto
18.15
Keynote “Historicizing Experiences of War: Profits and Pitfalls of Narratological Approaches”
Jörg Echternkamp, Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (ZMSBw) / Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Thursday, 27 October
09.00
Registration
09.15
PANEL 1 – Mechanisms of recruitment and military service
Moderator: Peter M. Quadflieg
Naturalisation and Military Service during the Second World War
Denis Scuto, C²DH, University of Luxembourg
Being a Soldier – Between individual and soldierly experientality of Luxembourgish recruits in WWII
Nina Janz, C²DH, University of Luxembourg
Fighting for the enemy: recruitment of Slovenians for the Waffen-SS during the Second World War
Klemen Kocjancic, Defence Research Centre of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
11.15
Coffee break
11.45
PANEL 2 – Shifting allegiances
Moderator: Christoph Brüll
Identity change as a survival strategy: Forcibly mobilized Wehrmacht soldiers applying for the Allied armies-in-exile
Zdenko Maršálek, Institute of Contemporary History/Czech Academy of Sciences
From ‘forced conscription’ to compulsory military service: Luxembourg’s ‘forced conscripts’ and the question of post-war military service
Felix Streicher, Department of History, Maastricht University
Nina Janz, C²DH, University of Luxembourg
Friends and/or Enemies? Conflicting Loyalties among Soldiers Fighting Both in the German Army and the Allied Forces
Machteld Venken, C²DH, University of Luxembourg
13.15
Lunch break
14.30
PANEL 3 – War experiences from below
Moderator: Sonja Kmec
Adaptive Stances of East Belgians in the Wehrmacht and Reichsarbeitsdienst (1940-1945). Insights Through Ego Documents
Philippe Beck, Zentrum für Ostbelgische Geschichte & UCLouvain
Forcibly Mobilised Slovene Soldiers in Wehrmacht – Diaries’ Analysis of their War Experiences
Monika Kokalj Kočevar, National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia
15.30
Coffee break
15.45
Paper and ink in the Soviet camp 188 in Tambov: capturing the camp life of Luxembourger conscripts
Inna Ganschow, C²DH, University of Luxembourg
Navigating War and Identity: Malgré-nous Marc(z)ell Wolfersberger in the German Army, 1942-1944
David W. Wildermuth, Shippensburg State University
18.30
Keynote “’Forced conscripts’ in history and memory”
Elizabeth Vlossak, Brock University
20.00
Dinner for the participants
Friday, 28 October
09.30
PANEL 4 – Draft evasion, desertion, imprisonment and their consequences
Moderator: Jean-Noel Grandhomme
Family liability and Umsiedlung – Consequences of desertion on families of Luxembourgish recruits (1942-1945)
Sarah Maya Vercruysse, C²DH, University of Luxembourg
Beihilfe zur Fahnenflucht in der Rechtsprechung der deutschen Sondergerichten auf den besetzten Gebieten Polens (1939-1945)
Konrad Graczyk, University of Silesia in Katowice & Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw
10.30
Coffee break
10.45
La captivité des Malgré-Nous alsaciens & mosellans chez les Alliés anglo-saxons
Philippe Gény, l’École Doctorale de l’Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Alsatian Draft Evaders in Switzerland (1942-1945)
Tobias Kossytor, European University Institute
11.45
Closing discussion
12.15
Lunch