Germans from the East : a study of their migration, resettlement and subsequent group history since 1945
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Germans from the East : a study of their migration, resettlement and subsequent group history since 1945
(Studies in social life, v. 15)
Nijhoff, 1970
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Bibliography: p. [337]-363
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Who, in 1945 and 1946, could have foreseen that the economic and social integration of the millions of Germans from the East expelled into West Germany after Wodd War II would largely be accomplished in a few years? And, who could have foreseen that many years after this accomplishment the political repercussions of the expulsions would go on? Yet, surprisingly enough, this is what has happened. In 1969, as usual, the major issues of the federal election campaign in West Germany hardly reflect any specific economic and social concerns of the expellees, not even those bruited about by the NPD (N ationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands). At the same time, how ever, all the political parties vying in the campaign, with the exception of the newly founded, less influentialDKP (the new German Commu nist Party), pay considerable deference to the political interests of the expellees in the German question. Whether these interests represent the opinion of most of the expellees and whether the expellee associ ations in fact speak for many voters is another matter. Why are these questions rarely posed? Why, despite the economic and social integration of the expellees, do the East German Home land Provincial Societies - the Landsmannschaften - retain much influence? The explanation of this phenomenon becomes increasingly clear if one reads the intelligent and superbly documented analysis by Hans Schoenberg.
Table of Contents
I. Forced Migrations in Modern History: An Introduction.- A. "Century of the Homeless Man".- B. Scope and Approach.- C. General Background.- 1. Political Emigration.- 2. The Balkan Minorities.- 3. Forced Mass Migrations under Nationalist and Communist Totalitarian Systems.- II. Background, Flight and Expulsions of East Germans and Ethnic Germans.- A. German Settlements in East Europe.- B. 1914 to 1942: Changes and Plans.- C. The Westward Flight: 1943 to 1945.- 1. Military Operations in Eastern Europe.- 2. Evacuation, Flight, Subsequent Events.- D. The Potsdam Conference and the Expulsions.- E. Reasons and Reactions.- 1. The Allied Leaders.- 2. Reaction in the West.- 3. The Red Army.- F. Summary and Conclusions.- III. Resettlement and Integration.- A. Reception.- B. Policy under the Allies.- C. Policy under the Bonn Government.- 1. Major Economic Measures.- 2. Economic and Social Position of Expellees.- 3. Self-employed Expellees.- 4. Germans from Communist Germany.- D. Summary and Conclusions.- 1. Expellees and Refugees in West Germany.- 2. East Germans Outside West Germany.- IV. Expellee Organizations.- A. Origins.- B. State and National Organizations.- C. The Homeland Provincial Movement.- 1. The Northeast German Group.- 2. The Silesian Group.- 3. The Sudeten Group.- 4. The Southeast German Group.- D. Expansion of the Movement.- 1. The New National Federation.- a. Structure.- b. Membership and Finances.- 2. Expellee Press and Reunions.- 3. Cultural Relations and Contacts Abroad.- 4. Expellees in Public Life.- a. Expellees in Government and Politics.- b. Expellees in Education.- c. Expellees in the Churches.- E. Conclusions.- V. Political Aims of the Expellees.- A. Common Tenets.- 1. Basic Policy Statements.- 2. Varying Interpretations.- 3. Implementation.- B. Homeland Provincial Claims.- 1. Ethnic Germans.- 2. Reich Germans.- 3. Sudeten German Policy.- C. Assertion of German Rights.- 1. The "Right to the Homeland".- 2. The Right to Self-Determination.- 3. The Legal Status of Germany.- D. Summary, Reactions and Conclusions.- 1. Reaction in East and West.- 2. Exile Mentality.- VI. The West German Public.- A. Policy Positions.- 1. Major Political Parties.- 2. Legislative Resolutions.- 3. Government Position.- a. Legal and Information Policy.- b. Public Schools.- c. Foreign Policy.- d. Quasi-Official Position.- B. Positions Outside the Government.- 1. Reactions Among West Germans.- 2. Right Radical Reaction.- General Summary and Conclusions.- Postscript.- Tables and Illustrations.- Index of Persons.
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