CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Bayley, Imogen Alexandra |
|---|---|
| Title | Allies or Antagonists? British and International Relief Agencies and the Post-War Displaced |
| Summary | This thesis deals with the administration of Displaced Persons (DPs) in the British Zone of occupied Germany, between 1945 and 1951. The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and its successor, the International Refugee Organization (IRO), identified the care and maintenance of Allied displaced populations as one of the foremost international humanitarian obligations in the post-war period. However, their methods were often contested by British military and occupation authorities. This thesis explores both points of cooperation and confrontation through the lens of the British DP administration, with a focus on Polish and Jewish DP communities. This combined approach will help to capture the diversity, as well as any unity, among administrative attitudes on the one hand, and within the “DP experience” on the other. These groups received markedly different treatment and highlight different aspects of the politics of relief as it developed and affected different DP groups over time. More broadly, this thesis hopes to highlight the role that the nation-state played in evolving visions of the DP future. It will be argued that while international relief agencies might proclaimed a new era of internationalism, the British solution to the DP problem was restoration into a national collective. |
| Supervisor | Wilke, Carsten; Miller, Michael |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/bayley_imogen.pdf |
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