"This Land Remains German": Requisitioning, Society, and the US Army, 1945-1956 Academic Article

abstract

• AbstractThis article examines debates over the requisitioning of real estate by the US Army during the decade after the end of World War II. Requisitioning quickly emerged as one of the most contentious issues in the relationship between German civilians and the American occupation. American policy changed several times as the physical presence of the occupiers shrank during the postwar period then expanded again after the outbreak of the Korean War. I show that requisitioning became a key site of contestation during the early years of the Federal Republic. The right to assert authority over real property served as a visible reminder of the persistent limits of German sovereignty. By pushing back against American requisitioning policy, Germans articulated an increasingly assertive claim to sovereign rights.

authors

• Seipp, Adam

published proceedings

• CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY

altmetric score

• 4.35

author list (cited authors)

• Seipp, A. R.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Seipp, Adam R

publication date

• September 2019

publisher

• Cambridge University Press (CUP)  Publisher

published in

• Central European History  Journal

keywords

• 43 History, Heritage And Archaeology
• 4303 Historical Studies

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/S000893891900075X

start page

• 476

end page

• 495

volume

• 52

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000893891900075x