NEW BOOK
“From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955” by Drew Flanagan, assistant professor of history at Pitt–Bradford (LSU Press, 2026)
Flanagan’s research traces how the French occupation zone became an early laboratory for the kind of cross-border economic and cultural integration that would eventually define the European Union. The book grew out of his doctoral dissertation, completed at Brandeis University in 2018. While researching postwar Europe, Flanagan kept coming across documents in which French occupiers had a distinctive tone focused on “civilizing” the German population, drawing them back into the broader current of Western European culture after years of Nazi barbarism.
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