Nina Janz, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), Université du Luxembourg
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
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
19.30 End of Day 1
Thursday, 27 October 2022
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
Friday, 28 October 2022
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