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Author Service, Hugo

Title Germans to Poles : Communism, Nationalism and Ethnic Cleansing after the Second World War / Hugo Service
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (387 pages)
Series New studies in European history
New studies in European history.
Contents Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Eastern Europe, 1939-44; The German occupation; The Soviet occupation; A new racial order, 1941-4; Soviet ethnic cleansing, 1941-5; Chapter 2 Poland, 1939-49; Territory; Communism; Chapter 3 War and peace; War; Peace; Chaos and lawlessness; Chapter 4 Expulsion; Disorganized expulsion; Voluntary migration; Mass transportation; German labour; Chapter 5 Repopulation; Mass influx; The property question; The communist vision; The nationalist vision; Chapter 6 Verification; Upper Silesia before 1945; National verification
Return migrationsLoyal citizens; Upper Silesian identity; 'Indigenous Poles' outside western Upper Silesia; Chapter 7 Expellees, settlers, natives; Chaotic migrations; Making space for settlers; Immigrants and natives; Chapter 8 Holocaust survivors and foreigners; Survivors; Exodus; Foreigners; Chapter 9 Assimilation; Language and identity; The penal approach; Names; Indigenous Poles; Chapter 10 Culture, religion, society; Cultural traces; Other remnants; Cultural life; The Roman Catholic Church; De-Protestantization; Belonging and not belonging
Conclusion Eastern Europe, 1944-9 Communism, nationalism, expulsionThe western Soviet republics; Postwar eastern Poland; Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania; Czechoslovakia and western Poland; Screening, expulsion, repopulation; Postwar Germany; Communism and nationalism after Nazism; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War
Notes Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Apr 2014)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-369) and index
Notes English
SUBJECT Pariser Friedenskonferenz 1919-1920 Paris Polish Delegation gnd
Subject Language policy -- Poland -- History
Language policy -- Germany -- History
Polish language -- Political aspects -- History
German language -- Poland -- History
German language
Language policy
Polish language -- Political aspects
Kommunismus
Nationalismus
Deutsche
Vertreibung
Assimilation Soziologie
SUBJECT Germany -- World War, 1939-1945 -- Language
Subject Germany
Poland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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