Neighbours or enemies? : : Germans, the Baltic and beyond / / John Hiden and Martyn Housden.

• Superior document: On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics, 12
• Author: Hiden, John.
• TeilnehmendeR: Housden, Martyn, 1962-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: On the boundary of two worlds ; 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 154 pages) :; illustrations

This is the first attempt to redress the injustice done to the memory of German minorities by the popular equation of ‘Lebensraum’ and Nazism; minorities, many of whom chose to be neighbours rather than enemies and who over time peacefully shared with other nationalities the territorial space east of the Reich. Their borderland experiences, particularly in the Baltic region, the historic interface between East and West, are all the more relevant as Hitler’s regime recedes into the past and Europe seeks to renew itself in the wake of the Cold War.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The troubled nation -- Peaceful coexistence -- Living communities -- The new aristocracy -- Dying space -- Ordinary Germans? -- Refugee nation -- The end of nationalism? -- Bibliography -- Index.