Day 1, 29 September 2016
9.15 Registration
9.40 Welcome
Andreas Gestrich (Director GHIL)
9.45 Introduction: Revisiting the Occupation Period
Camilo Erlichman (Edinburgh/Cologne) and Christopher Knowles (KCL)
10.15 Contextualising Occupation
Chair: Felix Römer (GHIL)
Susan Carruthers (Rutgers): Preoccupied: Wartime Training for Postwar Occupation in the United States, 1940-45
Peter Stirk (Durham): Benign Occupations? A Comparative Evaluation
Karen Adler (Nottingham): Gender as a Lens for Studying the French Occupation of Germany
11.45 Coffee break
12.00 Managing Cooperation and Conflict
Chair: Christopher Knowles (King’s College London)
Andrew Beattie (Sidney): The Allied Internment of German Civilians in Occupied Germany: Cooperation and Conflict in the Western Zones, 1945-1949
Douglas Bell (Texas): “Demokratie ist ein Fremdwort”: German Hunters and the American Occupation, 1945-1952
Trond Ove Tøllefsen (Florence): Building Up and Tearing Down: The Conflict Between Industrial Dismantling and Overall Goals in the British Occupation of Germany
13.30 Lunch
14.30 Handling Crime, Punishment, and Restitution
Chair: Bernd Weisbrod (Göttingen)
Caroline Sharples (Central Lancashire): What do you do with a dead Nazi? Allied Policy on the Execution and Disposal of War Criminals, 1945-51
Beth Healey (Northwestern): The Business of Murder: Tesch & Stabenow and the British Zyklon B Trial
Kristen Dolan (Duke): Reconsidering Arrest and Detention in the Western Zones of Occupation: The Case of Hessen, 1946-1949
Jeff Porter (Birkbeck): Restitution as a Prism for a Comparative Examination of some Aspects of the Western Occupation Zones in Germany
16.15 Coffee break
16.45 Keynote Presentation & Discussion
Chair: Camilo Erlichman (Edinburgh/Cologne)
Rebecca Boehling (Maryland): Transitional Justice? A Comparative Approach to Denazification in the Western Zones of Occupied Germany
18.30 Conference reception
19.30 End of Day 1
Day 2, 30 September 2016
9.30 Doing Occupation: Contested Plans and Strategies
Chair: Susan Carruthers (Rutgers)
Heather Dichter (Western Michigan): Game Plan for Democracy: Public Diplomacy Programs for Sport and Youth in Occupied Germany
Charlie Hall (Kent): Dissolution, Exploitation, or Reconstruction? British Approaches to German Science during the Occupation Period
Laure Humbert (Manchester): UNRRA in French Occupied Germany: A Comparative Perspective, 1945-1947
11.00 Coffee break
11.15 Experiencing Occupation in Daily Life
Chair: Karen Adler (Nottingham)
Bettina Blum (Paderborn): „My home, your castle“: The Requisitioning of Houses and Urban Quarters by the British Military Government in Westphalia 1945-1955 - Interactions between the Occupiers and the Occupied
Nadja Klopprogge (Berlin): Sex, Love, and Race: The Intimate Landscape of Postwar Germany
Ann-Kristin Glöckner (Magdeburg): German-French Encounters in the City of Freiburg under French Occupation 1945-1949
Daniel Cowling (Cambridge): Egodocuments and the History of the British Occupation of Germany
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Mediating Occupation: Complex Interactions and the Role of Intermediaries
Chair: Camilo Erlichman (Edinburgh/Cologne)
Dominik Rigoll (Potsdam): The Original 45ers: Recruiting Trustworthy Staff in West Germany, 1945-1950
Julia Wambach (Berkeley): Vichy in Baden-Baden: The Personnel of the French Occupation in Germany after 1945
Johannes Kuber (Aachen): The Priests and the Occupation: The Catholic Clergy of Baden in its Early Post-War Interaction with the French and American Allies
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 The Legacy of Occupation
Chair: Peter Stirk (Durham)
Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck): Battleground Germany: The Occupiers and the Early Cold War
Drew Flanagan (Brandeis): The Bridge Builders: The French Occupation in Germany from Conquest to Cooperation, 1945-55
Michael Wala (Bochum): The Value of Knowledge. Western Intelligence Agencies and Former Members of SS, SD, and Gestapo During the Early Cold War
17.30 Discussion: Towards a Future Research Agenda
Chair: Christopher Knowles (King’s College London)
Panellists: Rebbeca Boehling (Maryland), Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck), Bernd Weisbrod (Göttingen), Camilo Erlichman (Edinburgh/Cologne)
18.00 Conference ends