With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and repla…
In this work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the Wroclaw's new Polish settlers found themselves in a place that was not only unfamiliar to them but outright repellant given Wroclaw's Prussian-German appearance and the enormous scope of wartime destruction.
With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and repla…