Andrew Demshuk's research while affiliated with University of Alabama at Birmingham and other places
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Publications (9)
First developed during the First World War as a means to unify the nation and aid devastated German border communities, after
World War Two ‘godfather cities’ (Patenschaften) took on an additional, territorial-revisionist objective: to assert the continued existence of (and thus national right
to) German towns and regions lost in the aftermath of t...
Three Germanies: West Germany, East Germany and the Berlin Republic. By MichaelGehler. Translated by AnthonyMathews. London: Reaktion Books. 2011. Pp. 336. Paper $27.00. ISBN 978-1-86189-778-7. - Volume 46 Issue 3 - Andrew Demshuk
Germany, Poland and Postmemorial Relations: In Search of a Livable Past. Ed. Kristen Kopp and Joanna Nizynska. Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2012. xiv, 287 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $90.00, hard bound. - Volume 72 Issue 3 - Andrew Demshuk
Twenty years and a day after Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender, Hanover county administrator Helmut Janssen declared to an assembly of East Prussian expellee leaders that Germany was still destined to recover all of the territory it had possessed in 1937. One day, he claimed, the roughly twelve million ethnic Germans expelled from the lost eas...
A fifth of West Germany's post-1945 population consisted of ethnic German refugees expelled from Eastern Europe, a quarter of whom came from Silesia. As the richest territory lost inside Germany's interwar borders, Silesia was a leading objective for territorial revisionists, many of whom were themselves expellees. The Lost German East examines how...
The waves of ethnic cleansing in the 1930s and 1940s uprooted millions of East-Central Europeans and forced them to make sense of new surroundings. The Polish settlers who replaced over three million Germans in the borderland of Silesia created a layered palimpsest of new, generally nationalized meanings on an unfamiliar territory. After exploring...
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... Multiple studies appeared after years of forced silence or science deformed by propaganda. The ones worth mentioning are historical monographies (Wrzesiński and Goliński 2006;Herzig et al. 2012), articles on the post-war times of Lower Silesia and its inhabitants, and creation of the identity or regional heritage (Demshuk 2012a(Demshuk , 2012bZborowska 2017;Walkowiak 2019). ...
... The communist government coined several national myths in an attempt to strengthen this relationship, and simultaneously to mask the annexation of the eastern Polish provinces by the soviet union. These myths were extensively used to demonstrate the bonds between the Recovered Territories and 'core' Poland, and to exploit their slavic heritage (Demshuk, 2012;Domke, 2010;Grzechnik, 2017;Polak-springer, 2015). ...
