People on the Move : Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and Its Aftermath.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Authors -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Rise of the Modern Idea of a Nation -- 1.2 The Paris Peace Conference and Its Consequences -- 1.3 The Compulsory Greek-Turkish Population Exchange -- 2 Forced Migration Plans and Policies of Nazi Germany -- 2.1 Hitler's Ideology -- 2.2 Germans outside the Reich: From Protection to 'Heim ins Reich' -- 2.3 Nazi Germany's Plans for Occupied Poland -- 2.4 Soviet Population Policy in Poland -- 2.5 The Implementation of the German Plans in the Occupied Eastern Territories -- 2.6 The Generalplan Ost -- 2.7 Generalplan Ost: Implementation and Failure -- 3 The Population Policies of the 'Axis' Allies -- 3.1 Fascist Italy and the 'Mediterranean Empire' -- 3.2 Hungary: Principles and Practices -- 3.3 Romanian Plans and Practices -- 4 Population Movements at the End of the War and in Its Aftermath -- 4.1 The Victors' Plans and Their Implementation -- 4.2 The Fate of the Defeated Nations in the Carpatho-Danubian Basin -- 4.3 The Expulsion of Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia -- 4.4 Towards a Nationally Homogeneous State: Poland 1944-6 -- 4.5 The Exodus of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia -- 5 The Experience of Forced Migration -- 5.1 The 'Heim ins Reich' Programme and Its Impact -- 5.2 Deportations into the USSR -- 5.3 Flight and Expulsions of Poles and Germans at the War's End -- 6 Forced Migrations and Mass Movements in the Memorialization Processes since the Second World War -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Memory and Commemoration of Flight and Expulsion in Germany -- 6.3 Memory and Commemoration of Flight and Expulsion in Poland -- 7 Forced Labourers in the Third Reich -- 7.1 The Conflict between Racial Ideology and Economic Policy -- 7.2 Definition and Categories.

7.3 The Experience: Abduction to the Reich -- 7.4 The Fate of Forced Labourers at the War's End -- 7.5 Forced Labour in the Memorialization Process -- Appendix: Maps -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Europe has a long history of state-led population displacement on ethnic grounds. The nationalist argument of ethnic homogeneity has been a crucial factor in the mapping of the continent. At no time has this been more the case than during and after the Second World War.

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