{"id":42730,"date":"2015-09-14T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42730"},"modified":"2015-09-14T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T19:33:08","slug":"racist-hysteria-to-pragmatic-rapprochement-the-german-debate-about-rhenish-occupation-children-1920-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42730","title":{"rendered":"Racist Hysteria to Pragmatic Rapprochement? The German Debate about Rhenish \u2018Occupation Children\u2019, 1920\u201330"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S0960777313000039\" target=\"_blank\">Racist Hysteria to Pragmatic Rapprochement? The German Debate about Rhenish \u2018Occupation Children\u2019, 1920\u201330<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayJournal?jid=CEH\" target=\"_blank\">Contemporary European History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayIssue?jid=CEH&amp;volumeId=22&amp;seriesId=0&amp;issueId=02\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2013<\/a><br \/>\npages 155-180<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S0960777313000039\" target=\"_blank\">10.1017\/S0960777313000039<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~histweb\/faculty\/Display.php?Faculty_ID=33\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Roos<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Indiana University, Bloomington<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This essay revisits 1920s German debates over the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhineland_Bastard\" target=\"_blank\">illegitimate children of the Rhineland occupation<\/a> to examine hitherto neglected fluctuations in the relationship between nationalism and racism in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weimar_Republic\" target=\"_blank\">Weimar Germany<\/a>. During the early 1920s, nationalist anxieties focused on the alleged racial \u2018threats\u2019 emanating from the mixed-race children of colonial French soldiers. After 1927, plans for the forced sterilisation and deportation of the mixed-race children were dropped; simultaneously, officials began to support German mothers\u2019 paternity suits against French soldiers. This hitherto neglected shift in German attitudes towards the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhineland_Bastard\" target=\"_blank\">Rhineland bastards<\/a>\u2019 sheds new light on the role of debates over gender and the family in the process of Franco\u2013German rapprochement. It also enhances our understanding of the contradictory political potentials of popularised foreign policy discourses about women&#8217;s and children&#8217;s victimisation emerging from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" target=\"_blank\">World War I<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racist Hysteria to Pragmatic Rapprochement? The German Debate about Rhenish \u2018Occupation Children\u2019, 1920\u201330 Contemporary European History Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2013 pages 155-180 DOI: 10.1017\/S0960777313000039 Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington This essay revisits 1920s German debates over the illegitimate children of the Rhineland occupation to examine hitherto neglected fluctuations in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,459,8],"tags":[21069,2948,9585,21067,21068],"class_list":["post-42730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-contemporary-european-history","tag-germany","tag-julia-roos","tag-rhineland","tag-rhineland-bastards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42731,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42730\/revisions\/42731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}