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URL:https://europapunktbremen.de/events/sheila-fitzpatrick-displaced-perso
 ns-in-postwar-europe/
SUMMARY:Sheila Fitzpatrick: "Lost Souls. Soviet Displaced Persons and the B
 irth of the Cold War." Book Talk with Susanne Schattenberg
DESCRIPTION:When World War II ended\, about one million people whom the Sov
 iet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR\, m
 ostly in the Western-occupied zones of Germany and Austria. These “displ
 aced persons\,” or DPs—Russians\, prewar Soviet citizens\, and people 
 from West Ukraine and the Baltic states forcibly incorporated into the Sov
 iet Union in 1939—refused to repatriate to the Soviet Union despite its 
 demands. Thus began one of the first big conflicts of the Cold War. In Los
 t Souls\, Sheila Fitzpatrick draws on new archival research\, including So
 viet interviews with hundreds of DPs\, to offer a vivid account of this cr
 isis\, from the competitive maneuverings of politicians and diplomats to t
 he everyday lives of DPs.\n\nAmerican enthusiasm for funding the refugee o
 rganizations taking care of DPs quickly waned after the war. It was only a
 fter DPs were redefined—from “victims of war and Nazism” to “victi
 ms of Communism”—in 1947 that a solution was found: the United States 
 would pay for the mass resettlement of DPs in America\, Australia\, and ot
 her countries outside Europe. The Soviet Union protested this “theft” 
 of its citizens. But it was a coup for the United States. The choice of DP
 s to live a free life in the West\, and the West’s welcome of them\, bec
 ame an important theme in America’s Cold War propaganda battle with the 
 Soviet Union.\n\nIn conversation with Susanne Schattenberg\, Sheila Fitzpa
 trick will tell a compelling story of the early Cold War\, which is also a
  rare chronicle of a refugee crisis that was solved.
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CATEGORIES:Europawoche 2025
LOCATION:Universität Bemen - IW3\, Am Biologischen Garten 2  (Gebäude IW3
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