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Uprooted : how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions

Thum, Gregor, 1967-

Uprooted : how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions

Thum, Gregor, 1967-

9781400839964

Fremde Stadt. English

1 online resource (xl, 508 pages) : illustrations, maps

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 settle.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from Poland.

Forced migration -- Poland -- Wrocław -- History -- 20th century.

Social change -- Poland -- Wrocław -- History -- 20th century.

City and town life -- Poland -- Wrocław -- History -- 20th century.

Collective memory -- Poland -- Wrocław -- History -- 20th century.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sh25