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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Demshuk, Andrew, 1980-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Germans > Europe, Eastern > History > 20th century. Silesians > Germany (West) > History. Silesians > Ethnic identity. Nationalism > Silesia. World War, 1939-1945 > Refugees. Population transfers > Germans. Refugees > Germany (West) > History. Refugees > Silesia > History. Germany (West) > Emigration and immigration > History. HISTORY > Europe > General. Society. Emigration and immigration. Germans. Nationalism. Refugees. Silesians. Eastern Europe. Germany > Silesia. Germany (West) Schlesier. Vertreibung. Heimat. Kollektives Gedächtnis. Vertriebener. Deutschland. Duitsland. Ostdeutschland (vor 1945) Tyskar > historia. Tvångsförflyttningar > historia. Flyktingar > historia. Etnicitet. Schlesien. 1900-1999 Geschichte 1945-1970 1945- History.
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Table of Contents:

From colonization to expulsion: a history of the Germans in Silesia
The quest for the borders of 1937: expellee leaders and the 'right to the homeland'
Homesick in the Heimat: Germans in postwar Silesia and the desire for expulsion
Residing in memory: private confrontation with loss
Heimat gatherings: re-creating the lost East in West Germany
Travel to the land of memory: homesick tourists in Polish Silesia
1970 and the expellee contribution to Ostpolitik
Epilogue: The forgotten East.