Germans to Poles - Communism, Nationalism and Ethnic Cleansing After the Second World War

Informationen zum Autor Hugo Service is Departmental Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Oxford. Klappentext This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War. Zusammenfassung In the aftermath of the Second World War! millions of Germans were uprooted from their homes in Poland's newly created Western territories and sent back to Germany as these areas were repopulated by Poles. This book charts the processes of postwar displacement and nation-building! revealing the stark regional disparities in experiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Eastern Europe, 1939-44: occupation, expulsion, killing; 2. Poland, 1939-49: territory and Communism; 3. War and peace; 4. Expulsion; 5. Repopulation; 6. Verification; 7. Expellees, settlers, natives; 8. Holocaust survivors and foreigners; 9. Assimilation; 10. Culture, religion, society; Conclusion: Eastern Europe, 1944-9: Communism, nationalism, expulsion; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Hugo Service, Hugo (University of Oxford) Service, Service Hugo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107671485
• ISBN: 978-1-107-67148-5
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 31 mm
• Series: New Studies in European History; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; European History, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, Poland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Nationalism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Second World War, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Far-left political ideologies and movements, c 1950 to c 1959, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples