Sunday, January 11, 2004

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

169. Survival in an Age of Rubble: Black Market Activities in the Postwar Germanys
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony D

Joint session with the Conference Group for Central European History

Chair: Maria Höhn, Vassar College
Papers:

The Black Market in Germany: Interaction among Jewish DPs, Germans, and Americans
Laura J. Hilton, Muskingum College

Black Market? Black Butchering? Other Prohibited Activities? How German Expellees Coped with the Economic Crisis in Their Postwar Communities
Amy A. Alrich, Ohio State University

Black Market Whiteness: Race, Sex, and Survival in the Postwar Rubble
Timothy L. Schroer, State University of West Georgia

Frightening the Black Market: Economic Alarmism, Ethnic Identity, and the Persistence of the Police State in Occupied and Adenauer-Era Bavaria
Jose Raymund Canoy, University of Oklahoma at Norman


Comment: Mark Edward Spicka, Shippensburg University