Uprooted how breslau became wroclaw during the century of expulsions

With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settler...

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Main Author Thum, Gregor
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Princeton Princeton University Press 2011
Edition1
Subjects
1DFG
1DVP
20th Century
City and town life
Collective memory
Democratization
Deportation
Deportations from Poland
Europe
Forced migration
Germany
HBJD
HBLW3
HISTORY
Influence
Modern
Oder-Neisse Line (Germany and Poland)
Poland
Political history
Social change
Social conditions
World War Two
World War, 1939-1945
Wrocław
Wrocław (Poland)
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Summary:With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants.
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ISBN:0691152918
9780691152912
0691140243
9780691140247
9781400839964
1400839963
DOI:10.1515/9781400839964