Uprooted: How Breslau Became Wroclaw during the Century of Expulsions
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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 settlers found themselves in a place that
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Release date: 28 August 2011
ISBN-10 : 0691152918 | ISBN-13: 9780691152912
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Release date: 28 August 2011
ISBN-10 : 0691152918 | ISBN-13: 9780691152912
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