ISBN:
9781139376099
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (326 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.809438/509045
Keywords:
Germans History 20th century
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Silesians History
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Silesians Ethnic identity
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Nationalism
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World War, 1939-1945 Refugees
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Population transfers Germans
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Refugees History
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Refugees History
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Germans ; Europe, Eastern ; History ; 20th century
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Nationalism ; Silesia
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Population transfers ; Germans
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Refugees ; Germany (West) ; History
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Silesians ; Ethnic identity
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Silesians ; Germany (West) ; History
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World War, 1939-1945 ; Refugees
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Electronic books
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Germany (West) Emigration and immigration
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History
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Deutschland
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Schlesier
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Vertriebener
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Geschichte 1945-1970
Abstract:
After 1945, Germany was inundated with ethnic German refugees expelled from Eastern Europe. Andrew Demshuk explores why they integrated into West German society.
Abstract:
Cover -- The Lost German East -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Terms -- Acronyms -- German and Polish Place Names -- Introduction -- Scholarly Debates about the Role of West German Expellees -- The Two Images of Heimat -- Heimat of Memory -- The Heimat Transformed -- Source Base and Parameters -- 1 From Colonization to Expulsion -- Silesia Before 1918 -- Silesia From 1918 to January 1945 -- Silesia and the Silesians From January 1945 Through May 1949 -- 2 The Quest for the Borders of 1937 -- The Formation and Guidelines of the Expellee Political Project -- The Three Kinds of Recht Auf Die Heimat -- The Leadership's Response to Lack of Interest in Heimkehr -- Conclusions -- 3 Homesick in the Heimat -- The Experience of Silesia as a Foreign Country -- Germans in Silesia and the Nazi Past -- The Influence of Stories from the Heimat Transformed in the West -- Expellee Leaders and the Experience of the Heimat Transformed -- Conclusions -- 4 Residing in Memory -- Preserving the Heimat in Chronicles and Picture Books -- Imaginary Journeys into the Picture Book of Memory -- The Transience of the Earthly Heimat -- Two Heimat Newspaper Editors and the Process of Coping With Loss -- Conclusions -- 5 Heimat Gatherings -- The Origins, Forms, and Goals of Heimattreffen -- The Human Heimat -- Slideshows -- Material Symbols: The Case of the Brieg Tower -- Conclusions: Reflections at the End of an Era -- 6 Travel to the Land of Memory -- Travel Interest Among West German Expellees Before the Mid-1950s -- Methods of Coming to Terms With Loss Through Travel, 1955-1970 -- Cataloging Change and Continuity -- Islands of Heimat: Finding Germans in Polish Silesia -- Stranded in Slask: Contact with Polish Settlers in the Old Heimat -- Abschied: Farewell to the Heimat -- Dissemination and Responses.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Lost German East; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps and Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Glossary of Terms; Acronyms; German and Polish Place Names; Introduction; Scholarly Debates about the Role of West German Expellees; The Two Images of Heimat; Heimat of Memory; The Heimat Transformed; Source Base and Parameters; 1 From Colonization to Expulsion; Silesia Before 1918; Silesia From 1918 to January 1945; Silesia and the Silesians From January 1945 Through May 1949; 2 The Quest for the Borders of 1937; The Formation and Guidelines of the Expellee Political Project
Description / Table of Contents:
The Three Kinds of Recht Auf Die HeimatThe Leadership's Response to Lack of Interest in Heimkehr; Conclusions; 3 Homesick in the Heimat; The Experience of Silesia as a Foreign Country; Germans in Silesia and the Nazi Past; The Influence of Stories from the Heimat Transformed in the West; Expellee Leaders and the Experience of the Heimat Transformed; Conclusions; 4 Residing in Memory; Preserving the Heimat in Chronicles and Picture Books; Imaginary Journeys into the Picture Book of Memory; The Transience of the Earthly Heimat; Two Heimat Newspaper Editors and the Process of Coping With Loss
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusions5 Heimat Gatherings; The Origins, Forms, and Goals of Heimattreffen; The Human Heimat; Slideshows; Material Symbols: The Case of the Brieg Tower; Conclusions: Reflections at the End of an Era; 6 Travel to the Land of Memory; Travel Interest Among West German Expellees Before the Mid-1950s; Methods of Coming to Terms With Loss Through Travel, 1955-1970; Cataloging Change and Continuity; Islands of Heimat: Finding Germans in Polish Silesia; Stranded in Slask: Contact with Polish Settlers in the Old Heimat; Abschied: Farewell to the Heimat; Dissemination and Responses
Description / Table of Contents:
The Official Response to Homesick TouristsGrassroots Responses to Homesick Tourists; Conclusions; 7 1970 and the Expellee Contribution to Ostpolitik; The 1970 Treaty of Warsaw: The Political Background and Battles; The 1970 Treaty of Warsaw: The Expellee Response; 1970 as a Pan-Expellee Experience: Distress on the Left, Dissent on the Right; Conclusions; Epilogue The Forgotten East; Bibliography; Index
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Literaturverz. S. [277] - 294
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