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Lost German East - Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945-1970

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Demshuk is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. Klappentext After 1945, Germany was inundated with ethnic German refugees expelled from Eastern Europe. Andrew Demshuk explores why they integrated into West German society. Zusammenfassung After 1945! Germany was inundated with German refugees ethnically cleansed from territories ceded to East European states. Using cultural historical approaches to memory! nostalgia and ethnic cleansing! Andrew Demshuk shows how these refugees came to realize that the idealized world they mourned no longer existed and began to integrate into West German society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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: recreating 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: 8. The forgotten East.

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