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The Polish Wild West - Forced Migration and Cultural Appropriation in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1945-1948 (Hardcover)
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The Polish Wild West - Forced Migration and Cultural Appropriation in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1945-1948 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Second World War History
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The incorporation of German territories east of the Oder and
Western Neisse rivers into Poland in 1945 was linked with the
difficult process of an almost total exchange of population and
involved the taking over of a region in which the Second World War
had effected an enormous level of destruction. The contemporary
term 'Polish Wild West' not only alluded to the reigning atmosphere
of chaos and 'survival of the fittest' in the Polish-German
borderland but was also associated with a new kind of freedom and
the opportunity to start everything anew. The arrival in this
region of Polish settlers from different parts of Poland led to
Poles, Germans and Soviet soldiers temporarily coming into contact
with one another. Living together in this war-damaged space was far
from easy. On the basis of ego-documents, the author recreates the
beginnings of the shaping of this new society, one affected by a
repressive political system, internal conflicts and human tragedy.
In distancing oneself from the until-recently dominant narratives
concerning expellees in Germany or pioneers of the 'Recovered
Territories' in Poland, Beata Halicka tells the story of the
disintegration of a previous cultural landscape and the
establishment of one which was new, in a colourful and vivid manner
and encompassing different points of view.
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