| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 486 pages :) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The planner -- The Volksdeutsche in wartime -- The scheme -- The "wild expulsions" -- The camps -- The "organized expulsions" -- The numbers game -- The children -- The wild west -- The international reaction -- The resettlement -- The law -- Meaning and memory. |
| Summary |
"Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable-between 12,000,000 and 14,000,000 civilians, most of them women and children-and the losses horrifying-at least 500,000 people, and perhaps many more, died while detained in former concentration camps, while locked in trains en route, or after arriving in Germany exhausted, malnourished, and homeless. This book is the first in any language to tell the full story of this immense man-made catastrophe.Based mainly on archival records of the countries that carried out the forced migrations and of the international humanitarian organizations that tried but failed to prevent the disastrous results, Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War is an authoritative and objective account. It examines an aspect of European history that few have wished to confront, exploring how the expulsions were conceived, planned, and executed and how their legacy reverberates throughout central Europe today. The book is an important study of the largest recorded episode of what we now call 'ethnic cleansing,' and it may also be the most significant untold story of the Second World War"--publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) |
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Population transfers -- Germans -- History -- 20th century.
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Population transfers -- Germans. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Forced migration -- Czech Republic -- History -- 20th century.
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Forced migration. |
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Czech Republic. |
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Germans -- Czech Republic -- Sudetenland -- History -- 20th century.
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Germans. |
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Czech Republic -- Sudetenland. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced repatriation.
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Refoulement. |
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Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government -- 1945-1992.
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Czechoslovakia. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1945-1992 |
| Subject |
Czechoslovakia -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Douglas, R.M., 1963- Orderly and humane. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2012 9780300166606 (DLC) 2011045449 (OCoLC)759174473 |
| ISBN |
9780300183764 (electronic book) |
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0300183763 (electronic book) |
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0300166605 |
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9780300166606 |
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9781280678042 |
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1280678046 |
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