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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.