The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing: The Transformation of the German-Czech Borderlands After World War II

ISBN-13: 9781316647196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 309 str.

David Wester Gerlach

Opis

Examines the economic motivations and complications that drove ethnic cleansing in the post-World War II Sudetenland.

Recenzje

'Gerlach's thoughtful, well-researched study of the plight of ethnic Germans in the postwar Czech borderlands is a welcome addition to the literature about an often misunderstood or forgotten episode in the complex history of postwar Central and Eastern Europe.' David M. Crowe, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. In the wake of war: expulsions, violence and borderland life; 2. National divisions: resettlement, local power and settler conflicts; 3. Persian rugs and well-appointed farms: the politics of expropriation; 4. German workers: Czech settlers and labor politics; 5. Consolidating borderland industries: from confiscation to nationalization; 6. borderlands transformed: diverse communities and the construction of socialism; Conclusion.