16/16 Further Literature
Further literature on the exhibition at the German Bundesrat
For the 16 migration stories, we have compiled additional literature references on country and migration topics for you:
Literature
- Kramer, Lloyd: Émigrés and Migrations during the French Revolution. Identities, Economics, Social Exchanges, and Humanitarianism. In: Historical Reflections, Vol. 48, No. 3, 2022, pp. 1-8. (Available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/48823884)
- Pestel, Friedemann: Exile has, like all situations in human life, its merits: French revolutionary migrants in Hamburg and Altona. In: Fahnenbruck, Nele Maya/ Meyer-Lenz, Johanna (eds.), Fluchtpunkt Hamburg. Zur Geschichte von Flucht und Migration in Hamburg von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart, Bielefeld 2018, pp. 157-176 (Available online at https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JG7VEY3FBJ3PIPQPIKZYKMFLFPLCHYF2)
- Piper, P.: Altona and the foreigners, particularly the emigrants, a hundred years ago. Commemorative publication for the city anniversary on August 23, 1914, Altona 1914. (Available online at https://archive.org/details/altonaunddiefrem00eato/page/n3/mode/2up)
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Literature
- Braun, Fritz: Emigrant from the Mennonite community Friedelsheim in the 19th century (Writings on the migration history of the Palatinate, No. 1), Ludwigshafen 1956
Sources
- Mennonite Farm Friedelsheim:
https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/bad-duerkheim_artikel,-memorial-plate-displays-the-history-of-the-mennonites-in-the-palatinate-_arid,5514248.html - Anabaptists in the Electoral Palatinate:
https://www.mennlex.de/doku.php?id=loc:pfalz
Literature
- Hoerder, Dirk / Knauf, Diethelm (eds.): Departure to the Unknown. European Emigration to Overseas, Bremen 1992, pp. 171-173
- Seyferth, Giralda: German Immigration to Brazil. In: Brazil Today. Geographical Area, Politics, Economy, Culture, Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana, Vol. 134, Frankfurt am Main 2010, pp. 739–756 (Available digitally at https://publications.iai.spk-berlin.de/receive/riai_mods_00000832)
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- Böhlen:
https://vielfensterhaus.de/ortsgeschichte/ - Fritz Müller:
https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd118737457.html#ndbcontent - African Victims of Forced Displacement:
https://www.bpb.de/themen/migration-integration/regionalprofile/suedamerika/317598/vom-sklavenhandel-zum-auswanderungsland-brasilien-und-die-migration/ - Germans in Brazil
https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/daad-journal/themen/2024/200-jahre-deutsche-einwanderung-in-brasilien/
Literature
- Behringer, Wolfgang/ Clemens, Gabriele: History of Saarland, Munich 2009
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Literature
- Von Hassel, Horst/ Gabcke, Renate: Love for the Homeland – despite everything. Memories of the Kirchheimer family based on the testimonies from Harry Gabcke’s collection, Bremerhaven 2005.
- Wipperman, Wolfgang: Jewish Life in the Bremerhaven Area, Bremerhaven 1985.
- Strohmeyer, Dieter: The Ahronheims. A Bremerhaven Family History from 1930 to today. Edited by Simone Blaschka-Eick, Bremerhaven 2014.
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- Jewish Community Bremen:
https://xn--jdische-gemeinden-22b.de/index.php/gemeinden/a-b/467-bremen
https://jg-bremen.de/juedische-gemeinde-im-lande-bremen/geschichte/ - Jewish History Bremen:
https://www.spurensuche-bremen.de/spur/juden-in-bremen/
https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bremen - Statistics 2024:
https://www.bib.bund.de/DE/Fakten/Fakt/B92-Bevoelkerung-mit-Migrationshintergrund-Bundeslaender.html
Literature
- Asche, Matthias, Brechenmacher, Thomas (eds.): Stayed here? Brandenburg as a Land of Immigration from the Middle Ages to Today, Potsdam 2022.
(Digital at https://d-nb.info/1248764730/34 ) - Oltmer, Jochen: Immigration of Germans from ceded territories: Reception and rejection of “expelled from border areas.” In: Oltmer, Jochen (ed.), Handbook of State and Migration in Germany since the 17th Century, Oldenburg 2016, pp. 463-482.
- Kotowski, Albert S.: Poland’s politics regarding its German minority 1919-1939, Wiesbaden 1998. (Digital at https://books.google.de/books?id=KVg_tMs_ZPIC&pg=PP11&hl=de&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false )
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- Germans in Posen:
https://www.copernico.eu/de/themenbeitraege/die-geteilte-stadt-vergnuegungskultur-posen-um-1900
https://phdj.hypotheses.org/917 - “Homecoming camps” in the Weimar Republic
https://www.bpb.de/themen/migration-integration/kurzdossiers/246860/heimkehrlager-in-der-fruehen-weimarer-republik/
Literature
- Cohabitation of Czechs and German Bohemians
Brandes/Kovač/Pesek, Turning Points in Relations between Germans, Czechs, and Slovaks 1848 – 1989, Munich 2007 - Nazi policies in Czechoslovakia
Brandes, Detlef, “Population Transfer, Resettlement, Racial Assessment.” Nazi “Ethnic Policy” in the Bohemian Lands. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012 - On resettlers in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
https://www.kulturwerte-mv.de/Landesarchiv/Archivalien/Bisherige-Beitr%C3%A4ge/2025-04-fluechtlinge-vertriebene-umsiedler/ - Data on German refugees and displaced persons
https://www.hdg.de/lemo/kapitel/nachkriegsjahre/alltag/flucht-und-vertreibung.html
Ther, Philipp, Displacement policy in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR 1945 to 1953 (https://library.fes.de/library/netzquelle/zwangsmigration/45ddr.html)
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- Collections of sources:
Boris Celovsky, Germanization and Genocide, Hitler’s Final Solution to the Czech Question, German Documents 1933 – 1945, Dresden/Brno 2005 - Contemporary statistics on ‘homeland displaced persons’:
https://www.statistischebibliothek.de/mir/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/DEMonografie_derivate_00001644/TB-Vertriebene-dt.pdf
Literature
- Hauptmeyer, Carl-Hans: Lower Saxony, A Overview of Regional History and Historical Development, Oldenburg 2004, pp. 123-128
(Digital at the Portal Niedersachsen at www.niedersachsen.de > downloads) - Biedermann, Bettina: A Paid Passage. The emigration of Germans to Australia in the 1950s, Marburg 2006
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- Average weekly working hours in the Federal Republic:
https://www.gewerkschaftsgeschichte.de/data/4b_Entwicklung_der_woechentlichen_Arbeitszeit_in_der_Industr.pdf - Unemployment:https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Konjunkturindikatoren/Lange-Reihen/Arbeitsmarkt/lrarb003ga.html
Literature
- Sautter, Udo: History of Canada, Munich 1992
- MacDonald, George: Haida Monumental Art: Villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Vancouver 1983
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- Friedrich Dieck:https://www.trapper-dieck-canada.com/
- Migration statistics:https://www.it.nrw/nrw-knapp-256000-menschen-zogen-2024-ins-ausland-127889#:~:text=NRW:%20Knapp%20256.000%20Menschen%20zogen, NRW
- Immigration policy Canada:https://library.fes.de/fulltext/asfo/01017toc.htm
Literature
- Holtz, Menja: The Cuban Experience in East Germany: Academic Migration from 1960 to 2000. In: Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2014, pp. 468-483.(Available digitally at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/blar.12206?msockid=2f3b66ccf3cd691b135e737ff21f6806)
- Plamper, Jan: Labor Migration to East Germany. In: Plamper, Jan, We Are All Migrants. A History of Multicultural Germany, Cambridge 2023, pp. 83-105.
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- Racism in the GDR:Hoyerswerdahttps://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/hintergrund-aktuell/340381/vor-30-jahren-rechtsextreme-ausschreitungen-in-hoyerswerda/Murder of Delfin Guerra and Raúl Garcia Paret:https://doing-memory.de/rassistische-gewalt-in-der-ddr/
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- Koch-Arzberger, Claudia / Böhme, Klaus et al. (eds): Immigration Country Hesse? Data, Facts, Analyses, Opladen 1993.
- Molnar, Christopher A.: On the Move and Putting Down Roots. Transnationalism and Integration among Yugoslav Guest Workers in West Germany. In: Coy, Jason / Poley, Jared, et al. (eds.): Migration in German Lands 1500-2000, New York 2016, pp. 191-208.
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Literature
- Tröster, Irene: Resettlers – “new old Germans.” In: Meier-Braun, K.-H. / Weber, Reinhold (eds.): Cultural Diversity. Baden-Württemberg as an Immigration Country, Stuttgart 2006, pp. 146-164.
- Dietz, Barbara: Foreign Germans: Immigration and Integration of Resettlers. In: Beer, Mathias, Baden-Württemberg – a History of Immigration, Stuttgart 2014, pp. 175-198. (Available online at https://www.lpb-bw.de/fileadmin/publikationen/ki_publikationen/lkr_40_zuwanderungsgeschichte_2014.pdf)
- Peter, Ira: German enough? Why we finally need to talk about Germans from Russia, Leipzig 2025.
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- (Late) resettlers in Baden-Württemberg:
https://www.landeskunde-baden-wuerttemberg.de/phasen-der-einwanderung - Forced migration 1938-1948:
https://library.fes.de/library/netzquelle/zwangsmigration/32heim.html - “Repatriation” of Volga Germans:
https://www.russlanddeutschegeschichte.de/geschichte/teil3/nachkrieg/kriegsende.htm
Literature
- State Center for Political Education of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): First STRANGE – then FAMILIAR. Reports and Interviews, Halle (Saale) 2001.
Sources
- Migration statistics Saxony-Anhalt 1991-2018:
https://statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de/fileadmin/Bibliothek/Landesaemter/StaLa/startseite/Themen/Bevoelkerung/Berichte/Bevoelkerungsstand/6A109_2018-A.pdf - Migration statistics Saxony-Anhalt 2011-2020:
https://statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de/fileadmin/Bibliothek/Landesaemter/StaLa/startseite/Themen/Bevoelkerung/Berichte/Bevoelkerungsstand/6A109_2020-A.pdf - Migration statistics for Saxony-Anhalt 2015-2024:
https://statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de/fileadmin/Bibliothek/Landesaemter/StaLa/startseite/Themen/Bevoelkerung/Berichte/Bevoelkerungsstand/6A109_2024-A.pdf - Migration report Germany 1991-2011:
https://www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/Anlagen/DE/Forschung/Migrationsberichte/migrationsbericht-2011.pdf?__blob=publicationFile - Migration report Germany 2010-2022:
https://www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/Anlagen/DE/Forschung/Migrationsberichte/migrationsbericht-2022.html?nn=283568 - Foreign population 2014-2024:
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Migration-Integration/Publikationen/Downloads-Migration/statistischer-bericht-auslaend-bevoelkerung-2010200247005.html?templateQueryString=SI2025&templateQueryString=SI2025 - Statistics 2024:
https://www.bib.bund.de/DE/Fakten/Fakt/B92-Bevoelkerung-mit-Migrationshintergrund-Bundeslaender.html - The Bauhaus:
https://www.unesco.de/staette/das-bauhaus-und-seine-staetten-in-weimar-dessau-und-bernau/
Literature
- Wilhelm, Cornelia: Emigration from Bavaria and Immigration to North America in the Mirror of the Laws, 1683-2003, in: Hamm, Margot/ Henker, Michael et al. (Eds.), Goodbye Bavaria, Greetings America, Augsburg 2004, pp. 37-42
(Digital at https://archiv.hdbg.de/auswanderung/docs/wilhelm_kat.pdf)
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- Migration Numbers 2021
https://www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/Anlagen/DE/Forschung/Migrationsberichte/migrationsbericht-2021.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=10 - Human Rights/ Freedom of Emigration
https://www.menschenrechtserklaerung.de/freizuegigkeit-und-auswanderung-3620/