FOREWORD [any Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans), who formerly lived between the now
inhabit contemporary Germany, Great Britain, and the Americas, are experts in what we call “…

Rogers Brubaker has argued that the German ethnic conception of citizenship, forged in a
1913 law, was ‘nourished’ after World War II, when ethnic German expellees and refugees …

… 20 landsmannschaften which represent German expellees from all parts of eastern and
northern Europe as well as the Oder-Neisse lands. Since December 14, 1958, there exists one …

… Thus, the experiences of the German expellees was one of the issues that profoundly …
many Heimatbücher (homeland books) by German expellees – has shown that the expellees’ …

Terrible indeed is the war toll of millions of men. It is a tragic and irreparable loss to countless
rela-tives and friends. But the sufferings of these dead themselves are ended. They rest in …

… gathered in Stuttgart in the presence of officials of the churches, the government, and the
legislatures and proclaimed what has since been called the Charter of the German Expellees.In …

… terms – no recognition of the territorial status quo or the existing Communist regimes;
continued advocacy of the Heimatrecht and the self-determination right of the German expellees – …

… Those who suffered from the loss of their Heimat-or their" native land," as the Charter of the
German Expellees put it-soon emerged as a powerful domestic lobby group in the nascent …

… of the German expellees, but also … German expellees. This serves as background to our
analysis of the more recent debate concerning attempts to exhibit a history of German expellees …

… became and still is the first part of the legend of suffering inflicted on the German expellees.
… to the historical memory of the German expellees and the apparatus employed by their …