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The Lost German East : Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945-1970.
After 1945, Germany was inundated with ethnic German refugees expelled from Eastern Europe. Andrew Demshuk explores why they integrated into West German society.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; The Lost German East; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps and Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Glossary of Terms; Acronyms; German and Polish Place Names; Introduction; Scholarly Debates about the Role of West German Expellees; The Two Images of Heimat; Heimat of Memory; The Heimat Transformed; Source Base and Parameters; 1 From Colonization to Expulsion; Silesia Before 1918; Silesia From 1918 to January 1945; Silesia and the Silesians From January 1945 Through May 1949; 2 The Quest for the Borders of 1937; The Formation and Guidelines of the Expellee Political Project.
- The Three Kinds of Recht Auf Die HeimatThe Leadership's Response to Lack of Interest in Heimkehr; Conclusions; 3 Homesick in the Heimat; The Experience of Silesia as a Foreign Country; Germans in Silesia and the Nazi Past; The Influence of Stories from the Heimat Transformed in the West; Expellee Leaders and the Experience of the Heimat Transformed; Conclusions; 4 Residing in Memory; Preserving the Heimat in Chronicles and Picture Books; Imaginary Journeys into the Picture Book of Memory; The Transience of the Earthly Heimat; Two Heimat Newspaper Editors and the Process of Coping With Loss.
- Conclusions5 Heimat Gatherings; The Origins, Forms, and Goals of Heimattreffen; The Human Heimat; Slideshows; Material Symbols: The Case of the Brieg Tower; Conclusions: Reflections at the End of an Era; 6 Travel to the Land of Memory; Travel Interest Among West German Expellees Before the Mid-1950s; Methods of Coming to Terms With Loss Through Travel, 1955-1970; Cataloging Change and Continuity; Islands of Heimat: Finding Germans in Polish Silesia; Stranded in Slask: Contact with Polish Settlers in the Old Heimat; Abschied: Farewell to the Heimat; Dissemination and Responses.
- The Official Response to Homesick TouristsGrassroots Responses to Homesick Tourists; Conclusions; 7 1970 and the Expellee Contribution to Ostpolitik; The 1970 Treaty of Warsaw: The Political Background and Battles; The 1970 Treaty of Warsaw: The Expellee Response; 1970 as a Pan-Expellee Experience: Distress on the Left, Dissent on the Right; Conclusions; Epilogue The Forgotten East; Bibliography; Index.