ISBN:
1139380389
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1139107305
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9781139380386
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9781139107303
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 302 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Demshuk, Andrew, 1980- Lost German East
DDC:
304.809438/509045
Keywords:
Silesians Ethnic identity
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Nationalism
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World War, 1939-1945 Refugees
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Population transfers Germans
;
Refugees History
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Refugees History
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Germans History 20th century
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Silesians History
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Population transfers ; Germans
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Refugees
;
Silesians
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Silesians ; Ethnic identity
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HISTORY ; Europe ; General
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Emigration and immigration
;
Germans
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
;
Nationalism
;
History
;
Germany (West) Emigration and immigration
;
History
;
Germany ; Silesia
;
Germany (West)
;
Eastern Europe
Abstract:
"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 whom were themselves expellees. The Lost German East examines how and why millions of Silesian expellees came to terms with the loss of their homeland. Applying theories of memory and nostalgia, as well as recent studies on ethnic cleansing, Andrew Demshuk shows how, over time, most expellees came to recognize that the idealized world they mourned no longer existed. Revising the traditional view that most of those expelled sought a restoration of prewar borders so they could return to the east, Demshuk offers a new answer to the question of why, after decades of violent upheaval, peace and stability took root in West Germany during the tense early years of the Cold War"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
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: re-creating 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: The forgotten East.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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