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

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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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Main Author: Thum, Gregor, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
Social change.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Forced migration.
Deportation.
Collective memory.
City and town life.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
Memoire collective > Pologne > Wrocław > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Vie urbaine > Pologne > Wrocław > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Deportes polonais.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Influence.
Collective memory > Poland > Wrocław > History > 20th century.
City and town life > Poland > Wrocław > History > 20th century.
Social change > Poland > Wrocław > History > 20th century.
Forced migration > Poland > Wrocław > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Deportations from Poland.
World War, 1939-1945 > Influence.
Poland > Wrocław.
Poland.
Europe > Oder-Neisse Line.
Oder-Neisse, Ligne (Allemagne et Pologne)
Wrocław (Poland) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Oder-Neisse Line (Germany and Poland)
Wrocław (Poland) > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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