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Titre Des pratiques transnationales pour une lutte internationale ? Les militants communistes allemands en exil à l'Ouest pendant la seconde guerre mondiale
Auteur Alix Heiniger
Mir@bel Revue Critique internationale
Numéro no 66, janvier-mars 2015 Communismes et circulations transnationales
Rubrique / Thématique
Thema - Communismes et circulations transnationales
Page 37-51
Résumé anglais Transnational Practices for an International Struggle? German Communist Militants during the Second World War During the Second World War, German Communist Party militants in exile in Belgium, France and Switzerland collaborated with their comrades from the communist parties of other nations. Can the practices they deployed in doing so be described as transnational? Answering this question presupposes a distinction between internationalist discourse and possibly transnational practices. An examination of several biographical trajectories and itineraries of exile shows that these practices were established via the training of cadres and the acquisition of common norms and references. It also reveals how this collaboration operated in practical terms, allowing communists of several different nationalities to work together in secret. German communist militants initially conceived of their engagement in internationalist terms. However, following the creation of Freies Deutschland organizations in 1943, they adopted the nation as the appropriate scale of mobilization.
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