Uprooted : how Breslau became Wrocaw during the century of expulsions / / Gregor Thum ; translated from the German by Tom Lampert and Allison Brown ; translation of Polish sources by W. Martin and Jasper Tilbury.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English German |
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| Physical Description: | xl, 508 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- A note on names
- Prologue: A dual tragedy
- The destruction of Breslau
- Poland's shift to the west
- pt. 1. The postwar era : rupture and survival
- Takeover
- Moving people
- A loss of substance
- Reconstruction
- pt. 2. The politics of the past : the city's transformation
- The impermanence syndrome
- Propaganda as necessity
- Mythicizing history
- Cleansing memory
- The pillars of an imagined tradition
- Old town, new contexts
- pt. 3. Prospects
- Amputated memory and the turning point of 1989
- Appendix 1: List of abbrevations
- Appendix 2: Translations of Polish institutions
- Appendix 3: List of Polish and German street names.