Gregor Thum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1555705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregor Thum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregor |
| FAMILY NAME | Thum |
| SIGNATURE | THUM G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John J. Kulczycki. Belonging to the Nation
In his famous novel Levins Mühle (1964), Johannes Bobrowski wrote about a village in the German-Polish borderlands: “The Germans were called Kaminski, Tomaschewski and Kossakowski and the Poles Lebrecht and Germann” (6). Bobrowski, himself a son of East Prussia’s multiethnic borderlands, pointed to the complexity and fluidity of ethnic and national identifications in the border zones of Central and Eastern Europe. Neither a person’s name nor lang…
Winson CHU. The German Minority in Interwar Poland
Journal Article Winson Chu. The German Minority in Interwar Poland. Get access Winson Chu. The German Minority in Interwar Poland. (Publications of the German Historical Institute.) New York: Cambridge University Press. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute. 2012. Pp. xxii, 320. $90.00. Gregor Thum Gregor Thum University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, …
Helpless Imperialists
Uprooted
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 600,000 inhabitants—almost all of them ethnic Germans—were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of pre-war Poland. This book examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through …
How Breslau became Wrocław during the century of explusions
Uprooted
The Impermanence Syndrome
This chapter begins with Joanna Konopinka's account of her arrival in Wroclaw. Her words illustrate vividly the enormous discrepancy between the actual experiences of Polish settlers and the patriotic appeals of the government, which spoke of the western territories as ancient Polish soil, a land of milk and honey that was to be resettled after centuries and that promised prosperity to all comers. Polish settlers arriving in the western territori…
Mythicizing History
This chapter examines how the study of local history as an “act of self-reassurance” has grown in importance as societies have become mobile and people are less tied to a specific location. Historian Helmut Flachenecker writes of modern society that one is no longer the citizen of a location primarily by birth, but rather by history. This is true to an extreme degree of the Polish city of Wroclaw, whose society came into being as the result of a …
Ethnic Cleansing in Eastern Europe after 1945
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Wrocław and the myth of the multicultural border city
After the collapse of the communist power block in 1989, capital cities such as Budapest, Prague and Warsaw had the best starting positions for the development of their own distinctive post-socialist variant of the international market economy. Since then, however, smaller cities, such as Wrocław – the fourth largest city in Poland in terms of population – have been more creative in devising economic and cultural initiatives and strategies to pos…
Wrocław and the myth of the multicultural border city
After the collapse of the communist power block in 1989, capital cities such as Budapest, Prague and Warsaw had the best starting positions for the development of their own distinctive post-socialist variant of the international market economy. Since then, however, smaller cities, such as Wrocław – the fourth largest city in Poland in terms of population – have been more creative in devising economic and cultural initiatives and strategies to pos…
Ethnic Cleansing in Eastern Europe after 1945
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Wrocław and the myth of the multicultural border city
After the collapse of the communist power block in 1989, capital cities such as Budapest, Prague and Warsaw had the best starting positions for the development of their own distinctive post-socialist variant of the international market economy. Since then, however, smaller cities, such as Wrocław – the fourth largest city in Poland in terms of population – have been more creative in devising economic and cultural initiatives and strategies to pos…
Ethnic Cleansing in Eastern Europe after 1945
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Uprooted
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 600,000 inhabitants—almost all of them ethnic Germans—were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of pre-war Poland. This book examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through …
How Breslau became Wrocław during the century of explusions
Uprooted
The Impermanence Syndrome
This chapter begins with Joanna Konopinka's account of her arrival in Wroclaw. Her words illustrate vividly the enormous discrepancy between the actual experiences of Polish settlers and the patriotic appeals of the government, which spoke of the western territories as ancient Polish soil, a land of milk and honey that was to be resettled after centuries and that promised prosperity to all comers. Polish settlers arriving in the western territori…
Mythicizing History
This chapter examines how the study of local history as an “act of self-reassurance” has grown in importance as societies have become mobile and people are less tied to a specific location. Historian Helmut Flachenecker writes of modern society that one is no longer the citizen of a location primarily by birth, but rather by history. This is true to an extreme degree of the Polish city of Wroclaw, whose society came into being as the result of a …
Helpless Imperialists
Winson CHU. The German Minority in Interwar Poland
Journal Article Winson Chu. The German Minority in Interwar Poland. Get access Winson Chu. The German Minority in Interwar Poland. (Publications of the German Historical Institute.) New York: Cambridge University Press. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute. 2012. Pp. xxii, 320. $90.00. Gregor Thum Gregor Thum University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, …
John J. Kulczycki. Belonging to the Nation
In his famous novel Levins Mühle (1964), Johannes Bobrowski wrote about a village in the German-Polish borderlands: “The Germans were called Kaminski, Tomaschewski and Kossakowski and the Poles Lebrecht and Germann” (6). Bobrowski, himself a son of East Prussia’s multiethnic borderlands, pointed to the complexity and fluidity of ethnic and national identifications in the border zones of Central and Eastern Europe. Neither a person’s name nor lang…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Economic history (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (4 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (4 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · German (3 works)