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020 _a9781107020733 (hardback)
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100 1 _aDemshuk, Andrew,
_d1980-
_917226
245 1 4 _aThe lost German East :
_bforced migration and the politics of memory, 1945-1970 /
_cAndrew Demshuk.
260 _aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2012.
300 _axxii, 302 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: 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.
520 _a"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.
650 0 _aGermans
_zEurope, Eastern
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_917227
650 0 _aSilesians
_zGermany (West)
_xHistory.
_917228
650 0 _aSilesians
_xEthnic identity.
_917229
650 0 _aNationalism
_zSilesia.
_917230
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xRefugees.
_917231
650 0 _aPopulation transfers
_xGermans.
_917232
650 0 _aRefugees
_zGermany (West)
_xHistory.
_917233
650 0 _aRefugees
_zSilesia
_xHistory.
_917234
651 0 _aGermany (West)
_xEmigration and immigration
_xHistory.
_917235
856 4 2 _3Cover image
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856 4 2 _3Book review (H-Net)
_uhttp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36966
856 4 2 _3Book review (H-Net)
_uhttp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=37579
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955 _bre04 2011-12-30
_cre04 2011-12-30 ONIX
_axj15 2012-01-09 to Dewey
_axn02 2012-05-15 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
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