Uprooted: how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions
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Main Author: Thum, Gregor (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press c2011
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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 settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants. In this pioneering work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the city's new Polish set
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xl, 508 p)
ISBN:9781400839964
DOI:10.1515/9781400839964

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