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Uprooted how Breslau became Wroc±aw during the century of expulsions /

Main Author: Thum, Gregor, 1967-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Martin, W.
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Influence.
World War, 1939-1945 > Deportations from Poland.
Forced migration > History > 20th century. > Poland > Wroc±aw
Social change > History > 20th century. > Poland > Wroc±aw
City and town life > History > 20th century. > Poland > Wroc±aw
Collective memory > History > 20th century. > Poland > Wroc±aw
Wroc±aw (Poland) > History > 20th century.
Oder-Neisse Line (Germany and Poland)
Wroc±aw (Poland) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10481992
Table of Contents:
  • A note on names
  • Prologue: A dual tragedy
  • The destruction of Breslau
  • Poland's shift to the west
  • pt. 1. The postwar era : rupture and survival
  • Takeover
  • Moving people
  • A loss of substance
  • Reconstruction
  • pt. 2. The politics of the past : the city's transformation
  • The impermanence syndrome
  • Propaganda as necessity
  • Mythicizing history
  • Cleansing memory
  • The pillars of an imagined tradition
  • Old town, new contexts
  • pt. 3. Prospects
  • Amputated memory and the turning point of 1989
  • Appendix 1: List of abbrevations
  • Appendix 2: Translations of Polish institutions
  • Appendix 3: List of Polish and German street names.

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