Belonging to the Nation : : Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939-1951 / / John J. Kulczycki.

In 1939 Nazis identified Polish citizens of German origin and granted them legal status as ethnic Germans of the Reich. After the war Poland did just the opposite: searched out Germans of Polish origin and offered them Polish citizenship. John Kulczycki's account underscores the processes of in...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 3 maps, 9 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Disputed Polish-German Borderlands
  • 2. The German Occupation of Poland
  • 3. The Creation of a New Poland
  • 4. The Recovered Lands and Their Inhabitants
  • 5. The Prologue to Polonizing Identities
  • 6. The Initial Polish Government Nationality Measures
  • 7. After the Potsdam Conference
  • 8. The Central Government and Nationality Verification
  • 9. The Rehabilitation of Volksdeutsche in 1946
  • 10. A Year of Crucial Changes
  • 11. Nationality Policies Following the End of Mass Expulsion
  • 12. The Status of Autochthons at the End of 1949
  • 13. The Last Phase of Nationality Verification and Rehabilitation
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index