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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] My Home is Your Castle? Embattled Property from the Third Reich to the Present
DESCRIPTION:The twentieth century has seen major conflicts over property relations. Two world wars, mass murder, large-scale expulsion, flight from East to West Germany during the Cold War, and extensive confiscations brought about immense struggles over property and its allocation. Our panel views land registries (Grundbücher) as arenas where struggles over houses and land took place. In doing so, we ask the following questions: How did the relationships people developed with their homes and land affect social processes of integration, compromise, and compensation in Germany during the twentieth century? How did specific events and systems in twentieth-century Germany shape concepts, conflicts and practices of property? The exploration of these questions is based on three case studies: firstly, the implications of the Nazi plunder of Jewish property (“Aryanization”) for the implementation of the West German Equalization of Burdens Law (Lastenausgleichsgesetz); secondly, landed property claims and disputes as part of the Cold War in Germany; and, thirdly, conflicts regarding home ownership in East Germany before, during, and after 1989. Central to these case studies is the assumption that land registries, as the material loci where information about property and its owners is recorded, offer a unique window into struggles over societal resources. Our panel thus works towards two related goals. The first is a reappraisal of key transitional periods in modern German history based on new empirical evidence derived from land-and-home related property transfers and conflicts. The second is carving a more prominent role for land registries in the study of twentieth-century Germany. Indeed, we believe that Grundbücher can be used as a generative source for exploring “Deutungskämpfe” on property ownership.
Der Beitrag My Home is Your Castle? Embattled Property from the Third Reich to the Present erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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