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Imagining Yugoslavs: Migration and the Cold War in Postwar West Germany

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Christopher A. Molnar
Christopher A. Molnar*
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In recent years historians have argued that after the collapse of the Nazi regime in May 1945, the concept of race became a taboo topic in postwar Germany but that Germans nonetheless continued to perceive resident foreign populations in racialized terms. Important studies of Jewish displaced persons, the black children of American occupation soldiers and German women, and Turkish guest workers have highlighted continuities and transformations in German racial thought from the Nazi era into the postwar world, particularly in West Germany. In a programmatic essay, Rita Chin and Heide Fehrenbach argue that “the question of race remained at the very center of social policy and collective imagination during the occupation years, as the Western Allies worked to democratize Germany, and during the Bonn Republic,” and they call for a new historiography that is more attentive to the category of race and the process of racialization in Germany and Europe after 1945. While this newfound emphasis on race in Germany's postwar history has been salutary, an approach that puts race and racialization at the center of German interactions with resident foreign populations runs the risk of sidelining the experiences of foreign groups that Germans did not view in primarily racial terms. Indeed, to a certain extent this has already occurred. By the mid-1980s, public and policy discourse on immigrants in West Germany came to focus overwhelmingly on Turks and the problems raised by their “alien” Islamic cultural practices. That West Germany's guest worker program had resulted in the permanent settlement of hundreds of thousands of Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, Portuguese, and Yugoslavs was largely forgotten. When historians, anthropologists, and scholars in other disciplines began taking more interest in Germany's migration history in recent decades, they too focused overwhelmingly on Turks. Only in recent years has the historiography of Germany's postwar migration history started to reflect the multinational character of Germany's immigrant population.

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Central European History , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 138 - 169
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90 The Newsweek article was translated and republished in West Germany, Yorick Blumenfeld, “Mit Liebe hat das nichts zu tun,” Der Spiegel, October 6, 1965, 98.

91 Mergel, “Europe as Leisure Time Communication,” 137.

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103 Shonick, “Politics, Culture, and Economics,” 732.

104 Novinšćak, “The Recruiting and Sending of Yugoslav ‘Gastarbeiter,’” 138.

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109 “Brandt bei Tito: Deutsch-jugoslawische Zusammenarbeit: Ein Vorbild,” Die Zeit, April 20, 1973.

110 “Beziehungen zu Jugoslawien,” Heimat und Staat (Wandzeitung), 1971 no. 7, BHStA, StK / 13182.

111 Carl-Christian Kaiser, “Marschall Tito in Bonn: Mit dem Kredit beginnt ein neues Kapital,” Die Zeit, June 28, 1974.

112 See, for example, President Gustav Heinemann's dinner speech on the evening of Tito's arrival, Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung, “Der Staatsbesuch des Präsidenten der Sozialistischen Föderativen Republik Jugoslawien,” Bulletin, no. 77, June 26, 1974, BHStA, StK / 13182, 765–766.

113 Ibid., 768.

114 Gustav Chalupa, “Gastarbeiter, Adria-Touristen und hohe Wirtschaftskredite: Konkrete Themen für den ersten Besuch eines jugoslawischen Staatsoberhauptes,” Münchner Merkur, June 24, 1974, 3.

115 Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung, “Der Staatsbesuch des Präsidenten der Sozialistischen Föderativen Republik Jugoslawien,” Bulletin, no. 77, June 26, 1974, BHStA, StK / 13182, 766.

116 Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung, “Gemeinsames Kommunique,” Bulletin, no. 78, June 28, 1974, BHStA, StK / 13182, 773.

117 Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, “Deutsch-jugoslawischer Beitrag zur Friedenssicherung in Europa,” Bulletin, no. 50, April 18, 1975, BHStA, StK / 13183, 469–470.

118 “Begegnung bei Sport, Tanz und Folklore,” Erlanger Nachrichten, May 16, 1978.

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121 Ibid., 98; see also 47–49, 61–63.

122 Ibid. “Ihr Blut war rot” is on pp. 42–46.

123 Ibid., 42.

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