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The lost German East : forced migration and the politics of memory, 1945-1970 /

"A fifth of West Germany's post-1945 population consisted of ethnic German refugees expelled from Eastern Europe, a quarter of whom came from Silesia. As the richest territory lost inside Germany's interwar borders, Silesia was a leading objective for territorial revisionists, many of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Demshuk, Andrew, 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. From colonization to expulsion: a history of the Germans in Silesia
  • 2. The quest for the borders of 1937: expellee leaders and the 'right to the homeland'
  • 3. Homesick in the Heimat: Germans in postwar Silesia and the desire for expulsion
  • 4. Residing in memory: private confrontation with loss
  • 5. Heimat gatherings: re-creating the lost East in West Germany
  • 6. Travel to the land of memory: homesick tourists in Polish Silesia
  • 7. 1970 and the expellee contribution to Ostpolitik
  • Epilogue: The forgotten East.