Vision and reality : : Central Europe after Hitler / / edited by Richard Dove and Ian Wallace ; contributors Marietta Bearman [and nine others].

• Superior document: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; Volume 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Dove, Richard, 1938-2022,; Wallace, Ian,; Bearman, Marietta,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; Volume 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

All Hitler’s political opponents in exile sought to devise plans for the post-war future of Germany, Austria or Czechoslovakia. This volume brings together the different, often divergent proposals of groups and individuals in British exile and evaluates their contribution to actual post-war developments. Different essays trace the activities of the Free German Movement and its Austrian counterpart in evolving plans for the future of their countries or deal with the response of individuals such as Kurt Hiller or Friedrich Stampfer. Others consider the return of Socialist exiles to Austria or the involvement of exiles in Britain in the re-education of German prisoners of war. Ultimately, all plans for post-war Europe were trumped by the emerging Cold War, as Germany became the stage for enacting the political ambitions of the rival powers which had conquered it. Against this background, few of the hopes nurtured in exile came to fruition.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Richard Dove and Ian Wallace -- ‘The creation of a free, independent, and democratic Germany’: The Free German Movement in Britain, 1943-1945 / Charmian Brinson -- ‘Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit für Österreich’? Nachkriegskonzeptionen der Linken im britischen Exil, Grundlagen und Auswirkungen / Marietta Bearman -- Friedrich Stampfers Rolle in der Exil-Debatte um das ‘andere Deutschland’ während der 1940er Jahre / Jörg Thunecke -- After Nazism — Democracy? Kurt Hiller and a Constitution for Post-war Germany / Ian Wallace -- Reorganisation, inhaltliche Arbeit und alte Konflikte: Zur langfristigen Prägung gewerkschaftlicher Exilnetzwerke kleiner und mittlerer Funktionäre in Großbritannien nach 1938 / Swen Steinberg -- Die Remigration sozialistischer Exilanten nach Österreich: Exilpolitik – Netzwerke – Nachkriegsintegration / Peter Pirker -- ‘Die Bücher gingen sofort von Hand zu Hand’: The Contribution of Käthe Auerbach, Charlotte Bondy and the Büchergilde Gutenberg to the Re-education of German Prisoners of War in Britain, 1946-1948 / Jennifer Taylor -- ‘Deutschland wie nie zuvor’. Exilvision und Nachkriegswirklichkeit: zwei Theaterkritiker im Londoner Exil / Deborah Vietor-Engländer -- ‘Noises off’: The Kleine Bühne Production of J.B. Priestley’s They Came to a City (1944-45) / Richard Dove -- The Homecoming: The Reception and Treatment of Repatriates to Post-war Czechoslovakia / Jana Buresova -- Contributors / Richard Dove and Ian Wallace -- New Publications / Richard Dove and Ian Wallace -- Response to Anthony Grenville’s Introduction to The Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39: New Perspectives / Richard Dove and Ian Wallace -- Index / Richard Dove and Ian Wallace.