Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and 'Homecoming' in the Nazi Resettlement of the Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940

Harvey, Elizabeth

Abstract

This chapter examines the immense photographic effort undertaken by the Nazi regime to document the resettlement of different 'ethnic German' minorities from eastern and south-eastern Europe in the period 1939-41 and asks what propaganda messages can be read in them - and where different meanings can be deduced from the images.

Citation

Harvey, E. (2018). Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and 'Homecoming' in the Nazi Resettlement of the Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940. In J. Evans, P. Betts, & S. Hoffmann (Eds.), The Ethics of Seeing: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History (79-107). Berghahn

• Acceptance Date: Dec 1, 2016
• Publication Date: Jan 31, 2018
• Deposit Date: Nov 2, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 1, 2020
• Pages: 79-107
• Series Title: Studies in German History
• Series Number: 21
• Book Title: The Ethics of Seeing: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
• Chapter Number: 4
• ISBN: 9781785337284
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2645916
• Publisher URL: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/EvansEthics
• Additional Information: This chapter appears in a larger collection published by Berghahn Books (https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/EvansEthics). : Harvey, Elizabeth. 2018. Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and 'Homecoming' in the Nazi Resettlement of the Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940. 2015. “Settlement and the Law in the Seventeenth Century.” In The Ethics of Seeing: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History, eds. Jennifer Evans, Paul Betts and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann. New York: Berghahn Books.