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|a Gerlach, David W.
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|a The economy of ethnic cleansing
|b the transformation of the German-Czech borderlands after World War II
|c David W. Gerlach, Saint Peter's University, New Jersey
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|b Cambridge University Press
|c 2017
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|a In the wake of war : expulsions, violence and borderland life -- Divisions within the nation : resettlement, local power and settler conflicts -- Persian rugs and well-appointed farms : the politics of expropriation -- German workers, Czech settlers and labor politics -- Consolidating borderland industries : from confiscation to nationalization -- Borderlands transformed
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|a Sudetenland (Czech Republic) / History / 20th century
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|a Sudetenland (Czech Republic) / Economic conditions
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|a Sudetenland (Czech Republic) / Ethnic relations / History / 20th century
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|a Czechoslovakia / Politics and government / 1945-1992
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|a Germans / Relocation / Czech Republic / Sudetenland
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|a Sudeten Germans / History / 20th century
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|a Sudeten Germans / Economic conditions / 20th century
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|a Population transfers / Germans / History / 20th century
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|a Forced migration / Czech Republic / History / 20th century
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|a World War, 1939-1945 / Confiscations and contributions / Czechoslovakia
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|a Cambridge Books Online
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|u https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781108164559
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|a In the wake of World War II the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, witnessing not only the expulsion of nearly 3 million German speakers, but also the influx of nearly 2 million resettlers. Yet mob violence and nationalist hatred were not the driving forces of ethnic cleansing; instead, greed, the search for power and property, and the general dislocation of post-war Central and Eastern Europe facilitated these expulsions and the transformation of the German-Czech borderlands. These overlapping migrations produced conflict among Czechs, hardship for Germans and facilitated the Communist Party's rise to power. Drawing on a wide range of materials from local and central archives, as well as expellee accounts, David Gerlach demonstrates how the lure of property and social mobility, as well as economic necessities, shaped the course and consequences of ethnic cleansing
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