TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kulczycki,John J.
TI  - Belonging to the Nation: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939-1951 
SN  - 9780674659780
AV  - DK4600.O3385 
U1  - 305.800943153 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Germans
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Poland
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Germany
KW  - Polish people
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Territorial questions
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Maps --; Introduction --; 1. The Disputed Polish-German Borderlands --; 2. The German Occupation of Poland --; 3. The Creation of a New Poland --; 4. The Recovered Lands and Their Inhabitants --; 5. The Prologue to Polonizing Identities --; 6. The Initial Polish Government Nationality Measures --; 7. After the Potsdam Conference --; 8. The Central Government and Nationality Verification --; 9. The Rehabilitation of Volksdeutsche in 1946 --; 10. A Year of Crucial Changes --; 11. Nationality Policies Following the End of Mass Expulsion --; 12. The Status of Autochthons at the End of 1949 --; 13. The Last Phase of Nationality Verification and Rehabilitation --; Conclusion --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In 1939 Nazis identified Polish citizens of German origin and granted them legal status as ethnic Germans of the Reich. After the war Poland did just the opposite: searched out Germans of Polish origin and offered them Polish citizenship. John Kulczycki's account underscores the processes of inclusion and exclusion that mold national communities
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674969551
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