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Hugo Service is Departmental Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Oxford.
This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War.
Introduction; 1. Eastern Europe, 1939¿44: occupation, expulsion, killing; 2. Poland, 1939¿49: territory and Communism; 3. War and peace; 4. Expulsion; 5. Repopulation; 6. Verification; 7. Expellees, settlers, natives; 8. Holocaust survivors and foreigners; 9. Assimilation; 10. Culture, religion, society; Conclusion: Eastern Europe, 1944¿9: Communism, nationalism, expulsion; Bibliography.