In connection with the WARLUX research project, launched in 2020 at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) / University of Luxembourg, we are pleased to invite you to our international conference on 26-28 October 2022. The conference will focus on the impact of war experiences of non-German nationals serving in the Nazi German armed forces and labour organisations.
We are honoured to welcome two internationally distinguished keynote speakers:
Prof. Dr. Jörg Echternkamp, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg / Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (ZMSBw), Germany
Historicizing Experiences of War: Profits and Pitfalls of Narratological Approaches
Date & time: 26 October 2022 - 6 pm
Location: University of Luxembourg - Campus Belval - Maison du Savoir - MSA 3.330
and
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak, Brock University, Canada
'Forced conscripts' in history and memory
Date & time: 27 October 2022 - 6 pm
Location: University of Luxembourg - Campus Belval - Maison du Savoir - MSA 3.330
26-28 October 2022
Location: Maison du Savoir, Belval Campus, room 3.160 (conference) and MSA 3.330 (keynotes)
The conference will be organised in a hybrid mode, which will allow for both physical and online participation.
Please register using this form.
For more information please contact: warlux@uni.lu
Programme
Wednesday, 26 October
| 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
| 09.00 |
Registration |
| 09.15 |
PANEL 1 - Mechanisms of recruitment and military service |
| Moderator: Peter M. Quadflieg |
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| Naturalisation and Military Service during the Second World War Denis Scuto, C²DH, University of Luxembourg |
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| Being a Soldier – Between individual and soldierly experientality of Luxembourgish recruits in WWII Nina Janz, C²DH, University of Luxembourg |
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| 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 |
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| 11.15 |
Coffee break |
| 11.45 |
PANEL 2 - Shifting allegiances |
| Moderator: Christoph Brüll |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Friends and/or Enemies? Conflicting Loyalties among Soldiers Fighting Both in the German Army and the Allied Forces Machteld Venken, C²DH, University of Luxembourg |
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| 13.15 |
Lunch break |
| 14.30 |
PANEL 3 - War experiences from below |
| Moderator: Sonja Kmec |
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| Adaptive Stances of East Belgians in the Wehrmacht and Reichsarbeitsdienst (1940-1945). Insights Through Ego Documents Philippe Beck, Zentrum für Ostbelgische Geschichte & UCLouvain |
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| Forcibly Mobilised Slovene Soldiers in Wehrmacht – Diaries' Analysis of their War Experiences Monika Kokalj Kočevar, National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia |
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| 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 |
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| 18.30 |
Keynote “'Forced conscripts' in history and memory” Elizabeth Vlossak, Brock University |
| 20.00 | Dinner for the participants |
Friday, 28 October
| 09.30 |
PANEL 4 - Draft evasion, desertion, imprisonment and their consequences |
| Moderator: Jean-Noel Grandhomme |
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| Family liability and Umsiedlung – Consequences of desertion on families of Luxembourgish recruits (1942-1945) Sarah Maya Vercruysse, C²DH, University of Luxembourg |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 11.45 |
Closing discussion |
| 12.15 | Lunch |
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