| Autor: |
Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach |
| Rok vydání: |
1994 |
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| Zdroj: |
Lower Silesia from Nazi Germany to Communist Poland, 1942–49 ISBN: 9781349232185 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-349-23216-1_6 |
| Popis: |
Few subjects in modern history have aroused so many emotions and spawned such varied interpretations as has the uprooting and transfer of the German population (‘expellees’ to the Germans, ‘repatriates’ to the Poles) from the east following the Second World War. The intensity of the discussion has abated somewhat since the days of strident confrontation in the 1950s and 1960s, but widely differing interpretations of this event still persist. Which is the more accurate reflection of that event: the Polish contention that the Germans were not barbarically driven out but were assisted by the Poles merely carrying out the obligations of the Potsdam agreement, or the oft-cited German opinion that the Poles dealt with the German civilians with much the same brutality that the Nazis visited upon occupied Poland? Many myths have accompanied both of these extreme viewpoints, but it is hoped that the present chapter can avoid these dogmatic pitfalls and present the reader with an accurate picture of what occurred to the Germans in Lower Silesia from 1945 to 1948. |
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OpenAIRE |
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