Uprooted : : How Breslau Became Wroclaw during the Century of Expulsions /

Uprooted : : How Breslau Became Wroclaw during the Century of Expulsions / / Gregor Thum.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Thum, Gregor,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (552 p.) :; 90 halftones. 2 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Names
  • Prologue: A dual Tragedy
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. The Postwar Era: Rupture and Survival
  • Chapter One. Takeover
  • Chapter Two. Moving People
  • Chapter Three. A Loss of Substance
  • Chapter Four. Reconstruction
  • PART TWO. The Politics of the Past: The City's Transformation
  • Chapter Five. The Impermanence Syndrome
  • Chapter Six. Propaganda as Necessity
  • Chapter Seven. Mythicizing History
  • Chapter Eight. Cleansing Memory
  • Chapter Nine. The Pillars of an Imagined Tradition
  • Chapter Ten. Old Town, New Contexts
  • PART THREE. Prospects
  • Chapter Eleven. Amputated Memory and the Turning Point of 1989
  • Appendix 1. List of Abbreviations
  • Appendix 2. Translations of Polish Institutions
  • Appendix 3. List of Polish and German Street Names
  • Notes
  • Sources and Literature
  • Map of Poland after the Westward Shift of 1945
  • Simplified Map of Wrocław Today
  • Index

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