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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820848603321

Autore

Connor Ian, Dr.

Titolo

Refugees and expellees in post-war Germany / Ian Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2007

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2018

©2007

ISBN

1-5261-2980-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages, 10 pages of plates) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

943.0086914

Soggetti

Refugees - Germany - Social conditions - 20th century

Refugees - Germany - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Germany Politics and government 1945-1990

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The origins of the refugee problem -- The influx of refugees into Germany and its problems, 1945-50 -- Relations between the refugee and native populations, 1945-50 -- Refugees and political parties, 1945-50 -- The integration of the refugees into (West) Germany after 1950 -- the issue of political radicalisation -- Refugees in the Soviet Occupation Zone/German Democratic Republic.

Sommario/riassunto

At the end of the Second World War, some 12 million German refugees and expellees fled or were expelled from their homelands in Eastern and Central Europe into what remained of the former Reich. The task of integrating these dispossessed refugees and expellees in post-war Germany was one of the most daunting challenges facing the Allied occupying authorities after 1945.The first study in English of the economic, social and political integration of the German refugees and expellees in post-war Germany, this book is based on extensive research in German archives and also incorporates the findings of numerous local and regional studies undertaken by German scholars. While its main focus is on the German Federal Republic, the book also provides coverage of the refugee problem in the German Democratic Republic.This accessible book on a key aspect of post-war German



history will be of particular interest to undergraduates of history, politics and German.