Author

Publication

2009 - Springer, Basingstoke, England

Language

English

Word Count

69,000 words, Guess

Page Count

276 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10023057601X
  • ISBN-139780230576018
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010282547
  • OCLC Control Number429598359
  • Better World Books9780230576018
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC947.0842
  • LCCDJK50 .W38 2009
  • LCCD900-D2027DK1-DK949.
and 1 more
  • LCCDJK50 .W37 2009

Description

During the Second World War, the Nazis deported millions of Soviet, Baltic and Polish civilians, soldiers and prisoners of war to Germany. Many others were uprooted within occupied territories. This volume examines the 'violent peacetime' that followed the war, as these displaced persons strove to return home or to flee westwards during a time of territorial changes, the brutal imposition or reassertion of communist power, widespread nationalist resistance, state strategies of socio-ethnic engineering and economic reconstruction, new forms of international humanitarian intervention and emerging Cold War antagonisms. Contributors discuss the politics, personnel, administrative structures and everyday experience of Allied displaced persons camps in Germany; the political 'filtration' and sanitary screening procedures which Soviet repatriates underwent before they were permitted to return to their homes; and governmental arrangements for sorting, classifying and transferring people throughout the contested borderlands. -- Publisher description.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Warlands: population resettlement and state reconstruction in the Soviet-East European Borderlands, 1945-50Springer2009-01-01

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