Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Part I. Establishing the Pattern 1949-1955 -- 1. From the Expulsions to the Rise of the Expellee Organizations -- 2. The Programmes and Strategies of the Expellee Organizations -- 3. The Responses and Policies of the Main Parties -- 4. Adenauer's Foreign Policy and the Expellees -- Part II. the Pattern in Practice 1949-1966 -- 5. Ostpolitik Options and Expellee Influence 1955-1959 -- 6. Ostpolitik Options and Expellee Influence 1959-1966 -- Part III. The Collapse of the Pattern 1966-1969 -- 7. The Grand Coalition as the Turning-Point 1966-1969 -- 8. From the New Ostpolitik to Reunification 1969-1970 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This text examines the long-term consequences of the largest 'ethnic cleansing' operation in 20th-century Europe - the removal of up to 15 million Germans from Central and Eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-305) and index