Rebecca Strung

McMaster University, History, Graduate Student

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I am currently working on a dissertation that investigates the experiences of ethnic German immigrants who arrived in Canada in the interwar years and the immediate post-WWII period.
Supervisors: Ruth Frager

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Josiah Heyman

University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

Alejandra B Osorio

Wellesley College

David Seamon

Kansas State University

Marek Tamm

Tallinn University

Armando Marques-Guedes

UNL - New University of Lisbon

Florin Curta

University of Florida

Jorge Marco

University of Bath

Eduardo Domenech

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

AGUSTIN ZERON

UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Fabien Montcher

Saint Louis University

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German Immigration and Ethnicity in Canadian and American History: A Comparative Perspective

Hegemony in a Moment of Silence: Remembrance Day Discourse in Four Canadians Newspapers, 1945 - 1970

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From Expulsion to Ethnic Cleansing: The Historiography of the German Expulsion

Around 50 to 60 million people were displaced during the course of World War II (WWII) and its im... more Around 50 to 60 million people were displaced during the course of World War II (WWII) and its immediate aftermath. Approximately 12 million of these were German nationals from territories east of the Oder-Neisse line or ethnic Germans from Eastern European countries who either fled or were forced to leave their homelands through a combination of flight from the Red Army, evacuation by Nazi forces, spontaneous eviction by Eastern European authorities and internationally sanctioned population transfers authorized by the Potsdam agreement. This so-called “expulsion” not only affected the forced migrants themselves, but also had lasting consequences for the Eastern European societies they left behind, the newly created East and West German nations that were the primary recipients of them, and German immigrant communities around the globe that subsequently witnessed a large influx of them in the late 1940s and 1950s. Despite the enormous significance of this population movement, however, it has attracted only modest scholarly attention outside of Germany. Moreover, until the last ten years one-sided German perspectives that were either overly or implicitly political dominated the English language literature on the subject. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, however, historians from a number of fields began to show a renewed interest in the subject. Often drawing on newly declassified archival materials from Eastern Europe, these historians rejected earlier notions that the expulsion was primarily an act of retributive justice for Nazi crimes and instead suggested that it could be understood primarily in terms of two inter-related processes: a drive towards ethnic homogenization inaugurated by the formation of nation states and the consolidation of Communist power. This paper reviews and analyzes the English language literature on the German expulsion.

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German Immigration and Ethnicity in Canadian and American History: A Comparative Perspective

Hegemony in a Moment of Silence: Remembrance Day Discourse in Four Canadians Newspapers, 1945 - 1970

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From Expulsion to Ethnic Cleansing: The Historiography of the German Expulsion

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