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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hugo Service, Hugo (University of Oxford) Service
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.11.2015
• EAN: 9781107595484
• ISBN: 978-1-107-59548-4
• Pagine: 390
• Serie: New Studies in European History; New Studies in European Histor
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni