The Oder–Neisse Line as a Place of Remembrance for Germans and Poles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10076326 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beata Halicka (0000-0002-4643-0079, University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań and European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-91 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022009413505660 |
| OpenAlex | W2075865748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article takes the Oder region as an example to demonstrate the way in which memories of the Second World War and the postwar years are cultivated by residents of the region, and furthermore, how the place of remembrance of the Oder–Neisse line was encoded by Germans and Poles respectively. The Oder region saw an almost complete population exchange, which was a result of several migration processes. On both sides of the Oder–Neisse line, the memories of these events were manipulated politically and influenced the collective memory of the respective groups. The following text is based on the results of an Oral History project ( www.pyrzany-kozaki.eu ) carried out under my direction in 2011, as well as on the analysis of memoirs written by Polish new settlers in the 1950s and on reports by German refugees and expellees. These sources were the main focus of my research on the topic of ‘“Poland's Wild West” – forced migration and cultural appropriation of the Oder region 1945–1948’
Abandonment (legal · Aesthetics · Appropriation · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Collective memory · Ethnology · Genealogy · German · Linguistics · Memoir · Period (music · Political science · Population · Refugee · Sociology · Demography · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Philosophy · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |