#  Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948 

 



 ##  

  expand\_more  

 
  

 

**E****dited**  **by Philip Ther and Ana Siljak.**

**Now available from [Rowman & Littlefield](http://www.rowman.com).**

Read reviews of *Redrawing Nations from:*

[*Journal of Cold War Studies*](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/forumreviews.htm)

[*The Journal of Holocaust Education*](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/deakreview.pdf)

*[Professional Geographer](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/geographerreview.htm)*

For more information, please visit the following [link](http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=074251093X&thepassedurl=%5Bthepassedurl%5D).

Sort

After World War II, 12 million Germans, 3 million Poles and Ukrainians, and tens of thousands of Hungarians were expelled from their homes and forced to migrate to their supposed countries of origin. This work gives an account of the turmoil caused by the migration during the nascent Cold War.

**CONTENTS**

Introduction  
 *Mark Kramer*

1\. A Century of Forced Migration: The Origins and Consequences of "Ethnic Cleansing"  
 *Philipp Ther*

**Part I: Creating a Polish Nation-State**

2\. Forced Migration and the Transformation of Polish Society in the Postwar Period  
 *Krystyna Kersten*

3\. "Cleansing" Poland of Germans: The Province of Pomerania, 1945-1949  
 *Stanislaw Jankowiak*

4\. Who Is a Pole, and Who Is a German? The Province of Olsztyn in 1945  
 *Claudia Kraft*

5\. "De-Germanization" and "Re-Polonization" in Upper Silesia, 1945-1950  
 *Bernard Linek*

6\. Gathering Poles into Poland: Forced Migration from Poland's Former Eastern Territories  
 *Jerzy Kochanowski*

7\. Expulsion, Resettlement, Civil Strife: The Fate of Poland's Ukranians, 1944-1947  
 *Orest Subtelny*

8\. Overcoming Ukranian Resistance: The Deportation of Ukranians within Poland in 1947  
 *Marek Jasiak*

**Part II: Retribution and Expulsion in Czechoslovakia**

9\. The Mechanics of Ethnic Cleansing: The Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1945-1947  
 *Eagle Glassheim*

10\. To prosecute or to Expel? Czechoslovak Retribution and the "Transfer" of Sudeten Germans  
 *Benjamin Frommer*

11\. The Social and Economic Consequences of Resettling Czechs into Northwestern Bohemia, 1945-1947  
 *Zdenek Radvanovsky*

**Part III: German Refugees and the New German States**

12\. Compelling the Assimilation of Expellees in the Soviet Zone of Occupation and the GDR  
 *Manfred Wille*

13\. Social Conflict and Social Transformation in the Integration of Expelees into Rural Brandenburg, 1945-1952  
 *Arnd Bauerkamper*

14\. The German refugees and Expellees from the East and the Creation ofa Western German identity after World War II  
 *Ranier Schulze*

Conclusion: Ana Siljak

 







**Other Titles in the Cold War Studies Book Series**



**[](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/cleansing.htm)**Sort[](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/ColdWarAfterStalin.htm)





[](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/StrugglefortheSoul.htm)





[](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/DawnoftheColdWar.htm)





[](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/MaoandtheEconomic.htm)