Coming home to Germany?: the integration of ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic

Introduction: From Colonists to Emigrants: Explaining the 'Return-Migration' of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe /Stefan Wolff --pt. I.Refugees, Expellees and Aussiedler in the Federal Republic of Germany: Historical, Social, Political and Legal Dimensions of the Integration Process.Ch. 1.Integrating Ethnic Germans in West Germany: The Early Postwar Period /Daniel Levy.Ch. 2.The Struggle of Past and Present in Individual Identities: The Case of German Refugees and Expellees from the East /Rainer Schulze.Ch. 3.Expellee Policy in the Soviet-occupied Zone and the GDR: 1945-1953 /Philipp Ther.Ch. 4.The Integration of Ethnic Germans from the Soviet Union /Andreas Heinrich.

The end of World War II led to one of the most significant forced population transfers in history: the expulsion of over 12 million ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1950 and the subsequent emigration of another four million in the second half of the twentieth century. Although unprecedented in its magnitude, conventional wisdom has it that the integration of refugees, expellees, and Aussiedler was a largely successful process in postwar Germany. While the achievements of the integration process are acknowledged, the volume also examines the difficulties encountered by ethnic Germans in the Federal Republic and analyses the shortcomings of dealing with this particular phenomenon of mass migration and its consequences

Introduction: From Colonists to Emigrants: Explaining the 'Return-Migration' of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe /Stefan Wolff --pt. I.Refugees, Expellees and Aussiedler in the Federal Republic of Germany: Historical, Social, Political and Legal Dimensions of the Integration Process.Ch. 1.Integrating Ethnic Germans in West Germany: The Early Postwar Period /Daniel Levy.Ch. 2.The Struggle of Past and Present in Individual Identities: The Case of German Refugees and Expellees from the East /Rainer Schulze.Ch. 3.Expellee Policy in the Soviet-occupied Zone and the GDR: 1945-1953 /Philipp Ther.Ch. 4.The Integration of Ethnic Germans from the Soviet Union /Andreas Heinrich.

Introduction. From Colonists to Emigrants -- Part I. Refugees, Expellees and Aussiedler in the Federal Republic of Germany -- Chapter 1. Integrating Ethnic Germans in West Germany -- Chapter 2. The Struggle of Past and Present in Individual Identities -- Chapter 3. Expellee Policy in the Soviet-occupied Zone and the GDR: 1945 - 1953 -- Chapter 4. The Integration of Ethnic Germans from the Societ Union -- Chapter 5. Jus Sanguinis or Jus Mimesis? Rethinking 'Ethnic German' Repatriation -- Chapter 6. The Decline of Privilege