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Quellenbasierte, mit vielen Augenzeugenberichten anschaulich gemachte umfangreiche Studie über das Schicksal der sowjetischen und polnischen Kinder, die 1939-45 vom NS-Regime nach Deutschland deportiert und zur Zwangsarbeit verpflichtet wurden

Between 1945 and 1961 West Germany experienced one of the greatest waves of emigration in German history. However, before the emigration of Germans to European and overseas countries had even reached its zenith, German migration policy had laid the foundations for the immigration of foreign workers, and the era of organized recruitment had begun, which lasted until 1973. This article analyses how the migration agreements with Italy (1955), Spain (1960), Greece (1960) and Turkey (1961) came about. Based on official documents it will argue (a) that the Mediterranean countries had initiated the negotiations about these agreements in order to regulate at least parts of their outward migration according to the needs of their own labour markets, and (b) that German politicians and ministerial civil servants involved held no fundamental debate during their period of deliberation about the possible length of the employment of foreign workers, and avoided a public discussion about migration and migration policies.

The organisation of post-war relief is the first step in post-war reconstruction. The needs of the countries ravaged by the war will be immense and can be met only by international cooperative action on a very large scale. After the last war, there was considerable delay in organising relief; the scale on which it could be granted was very inadequate; and the financial conditions on which relief was available hampered the subsequent restoration of world economic relations. It is very desirable that plans should be prepared beforehand to provide relief after this war on an adequate scale and on a basis which will promote international recovery. . . . Voluntary organisations should be coordinated and linked up with these Relief Missions.1

The following conversation is an abridged transcript of a discussion that Prof. Dr. Beata Halicka (UAM) held with Prof. Dr. Johannes-Dieter Steinert of the University of Wolverhampton in the UK. It took place on December 1, 2022 and was the opening event of a conference entitled Little Workers: Child Labor in socio-cultural and economic perspectives throughout history. The conference was organized by the Department of Economic History, the Department of Eastern European History and the Research Unit of Cultural History and was held at the Faculty of History of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Johannes-Dieter Steinert is a prominent specialist in the field of child forced laborers in National Socialist Germany and German occupied Eastern Europe. His books on the subject have been published in English, German and Polish.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- European Immigrants in Britain, 1933-50 / Steinert, Johannes-Dieter / Weber-Newth, Inge -- Context -- Immigrants and Refugees. Keynote Address / Friedlander, Albert H. -- The Historiography of European Immigrants in Britain during the Twentieth Century / Panayi, Panikos -- Immigration and Immigration Policy in Britain from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries / Fahrmeir, Andreas -- Refugees from Nazi-Germany -- Exclusion, Persecution, Expulsion: National Socialist Policy against Undesirables / Benz, Wolfgang -- Britain and Refugees from Nazism: Policies, Constraints and Choices / London, Louise -- Jewish Refugees in Britain / Berghahn, Marion -- The Repatriation of German Political Emigrés from Britain / Kettenacker, Lothar -- The Impact of War -- Jewish Holocaust Survivors between Liberation and Resettlement / Kolinsky, Eva -- The Displaced Persons Problem: Repatriation and Resettlement / Jacobmeyer, Wolfgang -- Westward Ho! The Recruitment of Displaced Persons for British Industry / Kay, Diana -- The Poles in Scotland, 1940-1950: Some New Perspectives / Stachura, Peter D. -- Italians in War and Post-War Britain / Sponza, Lucio -- The Legacy of War: Germans in Post-War Britain / Steinert, Johannes-Dieter / Weber-Newth, Inge -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Based on rich British and German governmental and non-governmental archive sources, contemporary newspaper articles and nearly eighty biographically-oriented interviews with German migrants, this outstanding volume, a must-read for students and scholars in the fields of social history, sociology and migration studies, expertly encompasses political as well as social-historical questions and engages with the social, economic and cultural situation of German immigrants to Britain from a life-historical perspective