„Ich bin nicht ehemaliges Besatzungskind, sondern ich bin es immer noch“ Brüche und Inkonsistenzen in Erzählungen von ‚professionellen‘ Zeitzeug_innen

Kleinau, Elke; Schmid, Rafaela

doi:10.3224/bios.v29i2.07

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“…In this process, his view of his biological father also changes. Gradually, this figure comes to have a face and becomes a young, basically ‘decent’ man, who only let himself be carried away into committing rape in the ‘exceptional circumstances’ of war (Kleinau and Schmid, 2016b). For Johannes S., this perspective can potentially allow him to identify with a father who no longer appears ‘monstrous’ — and perhaps even to distance himself from the fact that he was born of a rape.…”

Section: Risks and Coping Strategies Of ‘Occupation Children’mentioning

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“…When analysing the interviews, we based our approach on Theodor Schulze's reflective hermeneutics and the associated analysis of topoi. Topoi ‘are places where the biographical process is condensed, determined, articulated’ (Schulze, , p. 431); for example, living as others (Schmid and Kleinau, ), a childhood in residential care (Kleinau and Schmid, 2016a) or the end of my childhood (Kleinau and Schmid, 2016b). The analysis of the individual topoi is circular rather than sequential, so that the selected passages can be considered as a whole, and it is possible to keep coming back to the middle and the beginning (Schulze, , p. 432).…”

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‘Occupation Children’ in Germany after World War II — Problems and Coping Strategies

Kleinau

Schmid

2019

Children & Society

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The article focuses on the autobiographical memories of people born in Germany after the Second World War, whose mothers were local women and whose fathers were members of the allied forces. Based on the analysis of narrative interviews, we ask how these people experienced their growing up and their sociocultural environment in the post‐war era, and what kind of coping strategies they developed to deal with adverse living conditions.

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Section: Project Design: ‘Occupation Children’ In Post‐war Germany: Ementioning

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‘Occupation Children’ in Germany after World War II — Problems and Coping Strategies

Kleinau

Schmid

2019

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Life Stories as Memory Carriers

Berner¹

2022

Kindheit – Bildung – Erziehung. Philosophische Perspektiven

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“Collateral damage” of occupation? Social and political responses to nonmarital children of Allied soldiers and Austrian women after the Second World War

Schretter¹,

Stelzl-Marx²

2022

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Thousands of so-called occupation children were born to Allied soldiers and Austrian women in sexual relations after the end of the Second World War. Their experiences correspond to the experiences of occupation children in Germany and, more general, to the experiences of Children Born of War, i.e., children born after sexual contact between local women and foreign/enemy soldiers in conflict and post-conflict situations, regardless of the time of birth and the geopolitical context. Now, more than 75 years after the end of the war, we have studied the changes in the social and political handling of occupation children in Austria over the past decades, using official sources such as newspaper reports, and including biographical interviews conducted with British occupation children in the 2010s. Three phases were identified into which the handling of occupation children can be divided: The post-war years, in which these children were perceived as an (economic) burden; the phase of occupation children growing up and becoming adults, in which they were hardly addressed in public; and the period since the 1990s, in which they have experienced increased media, family, and public interest, which can be attributed to their efforts to make their life stories heard, to the academic research into their living and socialization conditions, and to the formation of networks. The study complements other research on occupation children in Germany and Austria, highlighting the significant differences in the discourse on U.S. American, British, Soviet, and French occupation children, especially between white and Black occupation children, and addressing the differences in Austria compared to Germany. The article argues that challenges and opportunities in the integration of these children have been tied to changes in social values and morals as well as to collective processes of coming to terms with the war and post-war period.

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„Ich bin nicht ehemaliges Besatzungskind, sondern ich bin es immer noch“ Brüche und Inkonsistenzen in Erzählungen von ‚professionellen‘ Zeitzeug_innen

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‘Occupation Children’ in Germany after World War II — Problems and Coping Strategies

‘Occupation Children’ in Germany after World War II — Problems and Coping Strategies

Life Stories as Memory Carriers

“Collateral damage” of occupation? Social and political responses to nonmarital children of Allied soldiers and Austrian women after the Second World War

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