TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thum,Gregor
TI  - Uprooted: How Breslau Became Wroclaw during the Century of Expulsions 
SN  - 9780691152912
AV  - DK4780.3 .T4 2017
U1  - 943.852 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Poland
KW  - Wrocław
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Forced migration
KW  - Social change
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Deportations from Poland
KW  - Influence
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 1940s
KW  - Allied powers
KW  - Allied victory
KW  - Allies
KW  - Breslau
KW  - Central Europe
KW  - Eastern Europe
KW  - Europe
KW  - Gdansk
KW  - General Conservator
KW  - German occupation
KW  - German territories
KW  - German territory
KW  - Germans
KW  - GermanАolish border
KW  - Gnienzo
KW  - Jan Zachwatowicz
KW  - Joanna Konopinka
KW  - Karol Maleczynski
KW  - Krakow
KW  - London Foreign Office
KW  - Poles
KW  - Polish leaders
KW  - Polish names
KW  - Polish national cult
KW  - Polish people
KW  - Polish residents
KW  - Polish settlers
KW  - Polish state
KW  - Polish takeover
KW  - Polonization
KW  - Potsdam Conference
KW  - Poznan
KW  - Second World War
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Soviet dismantling
KW  - Szczecin
KW  - Warsaw
KW  - Washington State Department
KW  - Wrocalw
KW  - Wroclaw
KW  - age-old Polish
KW  - archival materials
KW  - better future
KW  - communist government
KW  - cultural life
KW  - discrimination
KW  - ethnic Germans
KW  - ethnic minorities
KW  - forced migration
KW  - forced migrations
KW  - foreignness
KW  - historians
KW  - historic preservation
KW  - historical names
KW  - homogenous nation
KW  - integration
KW  - local history
KW  - mass migrations
KW  - modern society
KW  - national border
KW  - nonintervention
KW  - patriotic appeals
KW  - political map
KW  - political power
KW  - population exchange
KW  - postwar Poland
KW  - postwar challenges
KW  - postwar history
KW  - reconstruction
KW  - renaming operation
KW  - self-reassurance
KW  - settlement boundaries
KW  - settlers
KW  - tradition
KW  - transportation connections
KW  - war
KW  - wartime destruction
KW  - western territories
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Names --; Prologue: A dual Tragedy --; Introduction --; PART ONE. The Postwar Era: Rupture and Survival --; Chapter One. Takeover --; Chapter Two. Moving People --; Chapter Three. A Loss of Substance --; Chapter Four. Reconstruction --; PART TWO. The Politics of the Past: The City's Transformation --; Chapter Five. The Impermanence Syndrome --; Chapter Six. Propaganda as Necessity --; Chapter Seven. Mythicizing History --; Chapter Eight. Cleansing Memory --; Chapter Nine. The Pillars of an Imagined Tradition --; Chapter Ten. Old Town, New Contexts --; PART THREE. Prospects --; Chapter Eleven. Amputated Memory and the Turning Point of 1989 --; Appendix 1. List of Abbreviations --; Appendix 2. Translations of Polish Institutions --; Appendix 3. List of Polish and German Street Names --; Notes --; Sources and Literature --; Map of Poland after the Westward Shift of 1945 --; Simplified Map of Wrocław Today --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 settlers found themselves in a place that was not only unfamiliar to them but outright repellent given Wroclaw's Prussian-German appearance and the enormous scope of wartime destruction. The immediate consequences were an unstable society, an extremely high crime rate, rapid dilapidation of the building stock, and economic stagnation. This changed only after the city's authorities and a new intellectual elite provided Wroclaw with a Polish founding myth and reshaped the city's appearance to fit the postwar legend that it was an age-old Polish city. Thum also shows how the end of the Cold War and Poland's democratization triggered a public debate about Wroclaw's "amputated memory." Rediscovering the German past, Wroclaw's Poles reinvented their city for the second time since World War II. Uprooted traces the complex historical process by which Wroclaw's new inhabitants revitalized their city and made it their own
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