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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Western Poland"”.
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The Lost East: Silesian Expellees in West Germany and the Fantasy of Return, 1945--1970
… traveling back to see the changed spaces of western Poland for themselves, expellees steadily came to realize through the 1950s and 1960s that their professed ""Right to the Heimat "" was in fact a right to the Heimat that they imagined in memory, rather than to a space that they could never …
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The lost East: Silesian expellees in West Germany and the fantasy of return, 1945-1970
… of violent upheaval. Before Bonn recognized Poland’s postwar border in 1970, self-appointed political and scholarly spokespeople for the expellees lost no occasion to preach the “right to the homeland” (Heimat) and advocate for a revolutionary migration, in which all expellees would return to …