a selective study on the post-World War II expulsion of German populations and its effects
by G.C. Paikert.
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1962
(x, 97 pages)
Publications of the Research Group for European Migration Problems, 12.
I. Exodus Teutonicus --;1. Introduction --;2. Approximate Number and Place of Origin of the Refugees --;3. Conditions under which the Migration Occurred --;4. Conditions Found in the Receiving Places --;II. Motives of the Great Flight --;1. Motives of those Germans who Moved out before the Expulsion --;2. Motives of those Germans who Stayed at Home --;3. The Three Phases of the Exodus --;III. The Legal Basis of the Expulsion, the Potsdam Agreement --;1. The Protocol --;2. Motives of the Soviets and its Dependencies --;3. It Was Hitler Who Started It --;4. The Expulsion, Symptom of Nationalism or Effect of Sovietization? --;5. Share and Responsibility of the Western Two --;6. Motives of the Western Two --;IV. Fundamentals Concerning the Settlement of the Newcomers, Their Socio-Economic Integration in West Germany --;1. From Chaos to Consolidation --;2. Socio-Economic Integration --;3. Permanent 'Political Camps'? A Second Arab-Israeli Issue? Spread of Communism? --;4. The German Guilt Complex and Revision --;5. A Curious Impact on the International Economic Plane --;V. The Role of the Expellees in the 'German Miracle' --;1. An Overlooked Aspect of the 'Miracle' --;2. Turning a Liability into an Asset --;3. The New Wave of Industrialization and the Refugees --;VI. The Impact of the Newcomers on West Germany's Socio-Cultural Geography --;1. Shifts in West Germany's Socio-cultural Structure --;2. The Newcomers' Place in West Germany's Cultural Life --;3. Changes in Basic Religious Patterns --;VII. The Expulsion and the Universal Norms of Law --;1. The Legal Situation --;2. The Concept of the Major Functions of War --;3. (National) Self-determination --;4. Human Rights --;5. The Right to Homeland and Residence --;VIII. Nation-State, National Minorities and the Expulsion --;1. The Expulsion, a Factor in the Crisis of the Nation-State? --;2. The Expellees and the Problem of National (Ethnic) Minorities --;IX. Solution? --;1. Stand of the Beneficiaries of the Potsdam Accord --;2. Stand of the Western Two --;3. The Uncommitted States --;4. German Approaches to a Solution --;5. Repatriation without Changes in Sovereignties --;6. Is the Oder-Neisse Territory Now a Ghostland? --;7. Who Will Return? --;X. Conclusions --;1. The Indispensable Background --;2. No Single Debit or Credit Sheet --;3. Summary --;Charter of the German Expellees --;Selective Bibliography --;Maps and Tables.
This brief study of the 1945 expulsion of German populations from Eastern-Central and Eastern Europe does not by any means pretend to be a complete and exhaustive analysis of a subject so massive, complex and controversial.