Redrawing Nations Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948

by Ther, Philipp; Siljak, Ana; Bauerkamper, Arnd; Frommer, Benjamin; Glassheim, Eagle; Jankowiak, Stanislaw; Jasiak, Marek; Kersten, Krystyna; Kochanowski, Jerzy; Kraft, Claudia; Kramer, Mark; Linek, Bernard; Radvanovsky, Zdenek; Schulze, Rainer; Subtelny, O

• ISBN13: 9780742510937
• ISBN10: 074251093X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-19
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

After World War II, some 12 million Germans, 3 million Poles and Ukrainians, and tens of thousands of Hungarians were expelled from their homes and forced to migrate to their supposed countries of origin. Using the latest archival materials from Polish,

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
A Century of Forced Migration: The Origins and Consequences of "Ethnic Cleansing"	p. 43
Creating a Polish Nation-State
Forced Migration and the Transformation of Polish Society in the Postwar Period	p. 75
"Cleansing" Poland of Germans: The Province of Pomerania, 1945-1949	p. 87
Who Is a Pole, and Who Is a German? The Province of Olsztyn in 1945	p. 107
"De-Germanization" and "Re-Polonization" in Upper Silesia, 1945-1950	p. 121
Gathering Poles into Poland: Forced Migration from Poland's Former Eastern Territories	p. 135
Expulsion, Resettlement, Civil Strife: The Fate of Poland's Ukrainians, 1944-1947	p. 155
Overcoming Ukrainian Resistance: The Deportation of Ukrainians within Poland in 1947	p. 173
Retribution and Expulsion in Czechoslovakia
The Mechanics of Ethnic Cleansing: The Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1945-1947	p. 197
To Prosecute or to Expel? Czechoslovak Retribution and the "Transfer" of Sudeten Germans	p. 221
The Social and Economic Consequences of Resettling Czechs into Northwestern Bohemia, 1945-1947	p. 241
German Refugees and the New German States
Compelling the Assimilation of Expellees in the Soviet Zone of Occupation and the GDR	p. 263
Social Conflict and Social Transformation in the Integration of Expellees into Rural Brandenburg, 1945-1952	p. 285
The German Refugees and Expellees from the East and the Creation of a Western German Identity after World War II	p. 307
Conclusion	p. 327
Index	p. 337
About the Contributors	p. 341
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