Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2001.

xi, 343 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Harvard Cold War studies book series

Based on a conference held in 1997 in Gliwice, Poland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents : A century of forced migration : the origins and consequences of "ethnic cleansing" / Philipp Ther -- Forced migration and the transformation of Polish society in the postwar period / Krystyna Kersten -- "Cleansing" Poland of Germans : the province of Pomerania, 1945-1949 / Stanisław Jankowiak -- Who is a Pole, and who is a German? The province of Olsztyn in 1945 / Claudia Kraft -- "De-Germanization" and "re-Polonization" in upper Silesia, 1945-1950 / Bernard Linek -- Gathering Poles into Poland : forced migration from Poland's former eastern territories / Jerzy Kochanowski -- Expulsion, resettlement, civil strife : the fate of Poland's Ukrainians, 1944-1947 / Orest Subtelny -- Overcoming Ukrainian resistance : the deportation of Ukrainians within Poland in 1947 / Marek Jasiak -- The mechanics of ethnic cleansing : the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1945-1947 / Eagle Glassheim -- To prosecute or to expel? Czechoslovak retribution and the "transfer" of Sudeten Germans / Benjamin Frommer -- The social and economic consequences of resettling Czechs into northwestern Bohemia, 1945-1947 / Zdenĕk Radvanovský -- Compelling the assimilation of expellees in the Soviet zone of occupation and the GDR / Manfred Wille -- Social conflict and social transformation in the integration of expellees into rural Brandenburg, 1945-1952 / Arnd Bauerkämper -- The German refugees and expellees from the east and the creation of a western German identity after World War II / Rainer Schulze.

Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects.

Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.

Forced migration -- Europe, Eastern.

Population transfers -- Germans.

Population transfers -- Ukrainians.

Ther, Philipp.

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