In this Book

Refugees and expellees in post-war Germany

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Ian Connor
2018
Published by: Manchester University Press
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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.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright

Contents

pp. v-vi

List of tables

pp. vii-viii

List of plates

pp. ix-x

Acknowledgements

pp. xi--xii

List of abbreviations

pp. xiii-xvi

Introduction

pp. 1-7

1. The origins of the refugee problem

pp. 8-17

2. The influx of refugees into Germany and its problems, 1945–50

pp. 18-57

3. Relations between the refugee and native populations, 1945–50

pp. 58-93

4. Refugees and political parties, 1945–50

pp. 99-138

5. The integration of the refugees into (West) Germany after 1950

pp. 139-176

6. The issue of political radicalisation

pp. 177-196

7. Refugees in the Soviet Occupation Zone/German Democratic Republic

pp. 197-233

Conclusion

pp. 234-238

References

pp. 239-260

Index

pp. 261-266

Image Plates

pp. 94-98
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