Author | Paikert, G. C. author |
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Title | The German exodus [electronic resource] : A selective study on the post-World War II expulsion of German populations and its effects / by G. C. Paikert |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1962 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0957-2 |
Descript | X, 97 p. online resource |
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 โPolitical Campsโ ? 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 โGerman Miracleโ -- 1. An Overlooked Aspect of the โMiracleโ -- 2. Turning a Liability into an Asset -- 3. The New Wave of Industrialization and the Refugees -- VI. The Impact of the Newcomers on West Germanyโs Socio-Cultural Geography -- 1. Shifts in West Germanyโs Socio-cultural Structure -- 2. The Newcomersโ Place in West Germanyโs 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