Forced Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939-1950

by Rieber,Alfred J.

• ISBN13: 9780714681559
• ISBN10: 0714681555
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

During and after World War II, millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe were uprooted and deported from their ancestral homelands in an unprecedented series of ethnic cleansings. The expulsion of minorities created more homogenous states than had previously existed in the region but caused massive social and psychological problems that lasted for generations. These nine case studies, written by Russian, German and Austrian scholars and based on archival findings, should shed new light on deportations and resettlement in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany. The introduction places forced migration throughout the region in a broad historical context.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Repressive Population Transfers in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe: A Historical Overview	p. 1
The Deportation of the Polish Population to the USSR, 1939-41	p. 28
The Polish--Czechoslovak Conflict over Teschen: The Problem of Resettling Poles and the Position of the USSR	p. 46
The Catholic Church and Deportations of Ethnic Germans from the Czech Lands	p. 64
The Fate of Hungarian Minorities in Slovakia after the Second World War: Resettlement and Re-Slovakization: Moscow's Position	p. 83
Migration of the Germans after the Second World War: Political and Psychological Aspects	p. 96
'Make the Germans Do It': The Refugee Problem in the American Zone of Post-war Germany	p. 115
The Integration of Deportees into the Society of the Federal Republic of Germany	p. 125
Refugees and Expellees in the Soviet Zone of Germany: Political and Social Problems of their Integration, 1945-50	p. 148
Ethnography of an Encounter: Reactions to Refugees in Post-war Germany and Russian Migrants after the Reunification--Context, Analogies and Changes	p. 175
Notes on Contributors	p. 191
Index	p. 193
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