Coming Home to Germany? : : The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic since 1945 / / ed. by Stefan Wolff, David Rock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Grill, Walter,; Heinrich, Andreas,; Jackman, Graham,; Koppenfels, Amanda Klekowski von,; Levy, Daniel,; Preece, Julian,; Rock, David,; Schulze, Rainer,; Senders, Stefan,; Ther, Philipp,; Tonkin, Kati,; Wagner, Richard,; White, John J.,; Wolff, Stefan,
• HerausgeberIn: Rock, David,; Wolff, Stefan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Culture & Society in Germany ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)

The end of World War II led to one of the most significant forced population transfers in history: the expulsion of over 12 million ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1950 and the subsequent emigration of another four million in the second half of the twentieth century. Although unprecedented in its magnitude, conventional wisdom has it that the integration of refugees, expellees, and Aussiedler was a largely successful process in postwar Germany. While the achievements of the integration process are acknowledged, the volume also examines the difficulties encountered by ethnic Germans in the Federal Republic and analyses the shortcomings of dealing with this particular phenomenon of mass migration and its consequences.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction: From Colonists to Emigrants: Explaining the ‘Return-Migration’ of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe -- Part I Refugees, Expellees and Aussiedler in the Federal Republic of Germany: Historical, Social, Political and Legal Dimensions of the Integration Process -- Chapter 1 Integrating Ethnic Germans in West Germany: The Early Postwar Period -- Chapter 2 The Struggle of Past and Present in Individual Identities: The Case of German Refugees and Expellees from the East -- Chapter 3 Expellee Policy in the Soviet-occupied Zone and the GDR: 1945–1953 -- Chapter 4 The Integration of Ethnic Germans from the Soviet Union -- Chapter 5 Jus Sanguinis or Jus Mimesis? Rethinking ‘Ethnic German’ Repatriation -- Chapter 6 The Decline of Privilege: The Legal Background to the Migration of Ethnic Germans -- Part II The Transition from German Minority Culture to the National Culture of Germany: Art as a Medium to Address and Express the Challenges of Migration and Integration -- Chapter 7 ‘From the periphery to the centre and back again’: An Introduction to the Life and Works of Richard Wagner -- Chapter 8 ‘ … a form of literature which was intentionally political.’ -- Chapter 9 Millennium -- Chapter 10 ‘Alone in a crowd’: The Figure of the ‘Aussiedler’ in the Work of Richard Wagner -- Chapter 11 A Romanian German in Germany: The Challenge of Ethnic and Ideological Identity in Herta Müller’s Literary Work -- Chapter 12 Günter Grass: ‘The Man who Migrated across History’ -- Chapter 13 From ‘Sudetendeutsche’ to ‘Adlergebirgler’: Gudrun Pausewang’s Rosinkawiese Trilogy -- Chapter 14 ‘… for an artist, home will be wherever he can freely practise his art.’ -- Conclusion: Coming Home to Germany? Ethnic German Migrants in the Federal Republic after 1945 -- Notes on Contributors -- INDEX