Post-War Masculinities: Demilitarization, Repatriation and Reassimilation of former Austrian Wehrmacht Soldiers after World War II
Michael S. Maier
Ministry of Science Research Fellow, Center Austria, The University of New Orleans
When: April 21, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30pm
Where: The University of New Orleans, Liberal Arts Lounge, LA 197
Michael S. Maier is a native of Austria and holds a M.A. degree in History and Journalism from the University of Vienna. He has worked for “The General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism” in Austria and is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna.
In his doctoral thesis he researches the impact of WWII on the Austrian postwar society with a focus on the repatriation and integration of war returnees and homecoming prisoners of war.