Shannon Monaghan with Mate Rigo

Why did some interwar politicians think that population engineering could serve the interests of democracy? Shannon Monaghan explains why many in France were convinced after 1918 that the removal of the recently reannexed Alsace-Lorraine's German population was necessary to solidify democracy. Shannon talks about her new comparative history of post-1918 transitions, Protecting Democracy from Dissent: Population Engineering in Western Europe, 1918-1926.