The Impossible Border : : Germany and the East, 1914-1922 / / Annemarie H. Sammartino.

Between 1914 and 1922, millions of Europeans left their homes as a result of war, postwar settlements, and revolution. After 1918, the immense movement of people across Germany's eastern border posed a sharp challenge to the new Weimar Republic. Ethnic Germans flooded over the border from the n...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 2 halftones, 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Crisis of Sovereignty
  • 1. "German Brothers": War and Migration
  • 2. "Now We Were the Border": The Freikorps Baltic Campaign
  • 3. Socialist Pioneers on the Soviet Frontier: Ansiedlung Ost
  • 4. "We Who Suffered Most": The Immigration of Germans from Poland
  • 5. "A Flooding of the Reich with Foreigners": The Frustrations of Border Control
  • 6. Anti-Bolshevism and the Bolshevik Prisoners of War
  • 7. "A Firm Inner Connection to Germany": Naturalization Policy
  • 8. Tolerance and Its Limits: Russians, Jews, and Asylum
  • Conclusion: The Legacy of Crisis
  • Appendix: Maps
  • Bibliography
  • Index