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Uprooted : How Breslau Became Wroclaw during the Century of Expulsions /

With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settler...

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Autor principal: Thum, Gregor, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • A note on names
  • Prologue: A dual tragedy
  • The destruction of Breslau
  • Poland's shift to the west
  • pt. 1. The postwar era : rupture and survival
  • Takeover
  • Moving people
  • A loss of substance
  • Reconstruction
  • pt. 2. The politics of the past : the city's transformation
  • The impermanence syndrome
  • Propaganda as necessity
  • Mythicizing history
  • Cleansing memory
  • The pillars of an imagined tradition
  • Old town, new contexts
  • pt. 3. Prospects
  • Amputated memory and the turning point of 1989
  • Appendix 1: List of abbrevations
  • Appendix 2: Translations of Polish institutions
  • Appendix 3: List of Polish and German street names.