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Exile in Sweden as trans-generational experience. Post-memories and cultural belongings among the children of refugees from Nazi-Germany
Dalarna University, School of Culture and Society, History.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2286-3646
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Sustainable development
SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Abstract [en]

When National Socialists came to power, many political opponents in Germany, Austria and Sudetenland fled to Scandinavia and ultimately to Sweden thanks to their ties with the Nordic labor movement. Several of these political refugees were Jewish and hence also for this reason in mortal danger on the continent. The end of the war and the final downfall of the Nazi regime in 1945 opened up for the possibility to return. Those who did, the most famous among them Willy Brandt and Bruno Kreisky, have for some while been catching the interest of researchers, not least because these returnees often exported Nordic ideas on social policy to the continent. The stories of those who stayed, however, have only been told for the first generation, again with a focus on single famous members of this group (i.e. Rudolf Meidner, Harry Schein, Nelly Sachs). The second generation of German-speaking political refugees, whose members are born in the 1930 and 1940s, has hardly gained any attention by researchers, since their members appear to be fully assimilated to Swedish society. Yet, it is this group which embodies the transition between post-1945 replacement and Cold War resettlement in a fascinating way. This paper highlights the hybridity of cultural belonging among members of this second generation. It discusses in what way family narratives and post-memories of persecution, flight and exile have been shaping their life-stories and asks which communities of remembrance this generation has been turning to. 

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Lund, 2024.
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-50550OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-50550DiVA, id: diva2:1955457
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Overcoming post-1945 displacement and Cold War resettlement: Individual and collective strategies by Central and East European actors in the West, Lund University, 10-11 september, 2024
Available from: 2025-04-30 Created: 2025-04-30 Last updated: 2025-10-09Bibliographically approved

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