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In May of 1945, there were more than eight million “displaced persons” (or DPs) in Germany—recently liberated foreign workers, concentration camp prisoners, and prisoners of war from all of Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as eastern Europeans who had fled west before the advancing Red Army. Although most of them quickly returned home, it soon became clear that large numbers of eastern European DPs could or would not do so. Focusing on Bavaria, in the heart of the American occupation zone, Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism examines the cultural and political worlds that four groups of displaced persons—Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Jewish—created in Germany during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The volume investigates the development of refugee communities and how divergent interpretations of National Socialism and Soviet Communism defined these displaced groups.

Combining German and eastern European history, Anna Holian draws on a rich array of sources in cultural and political history and engages the broader literature on displacement in the fields of anthropology, sociology, political theory, and cultural studies. Her book will interest students and scholars of German, eastern European, and Jewish history; migration and refugees; and human rights.

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  1. Contents
  2. p. ix
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  1. Note on Sources
  2. p. xi
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-26
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  1. Part 1. Care and Control: The Administration of Displaced Persons
  1. 1. The Invention of the Displaced Person
  2. pp. 29-55
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  1. 2. Displaced Persons and the Question of Persecution
  2. pp. 56-77
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  1. Part 2. The Threat of Communism
  1. 3. The Repatriation Debate and the Anticommunist “Political Explanation”
  2. pp. 81-119
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  1. 4. Between Federalists and Separatists: The Anticommunist Movement(s)
  2. pp. 120-149
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  1. Part 3. The Legacy of Nazism
  1. 5. Jewish Survivors and the Reckoning with the Nazi Past
  2. pp. 153-185
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  1. 6. Displaced Jews and the German Question
  2. pp. 186-210
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  1. 7. Political Prisoners and the Legacy of National Socialism
  2. pp. 211-243
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  1. 8. Recognition, Assistance, Wiedergutmachung: The Claims of Displaced Political
  2. pp. 244-266
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  1. Conclusion
  2. pp. 267-271
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 273-326
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 327-345
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 347-367
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