Forgotten voices

• Preface
• p. xi

• Acknowledgments
• p. xvii

• Foreword
• p. xix

• I
• Background
• p. 1

• The Reasons for Ethnic Cleansing
• p. 2

• The Expulsions
• p. 7

• The Flight from the Red Army
• p. 11

• II
• The Flight and Expulsion of the German Population from East of the Oder-Neisse Line (Poland)
• p. 23

• The Soviet Attack on East Germany and the Flight of the Civilian Population
• p. 23

• The Soviet Attack on East Prussia
• p. 25

• Stutth of Concentration Camp
• p. 26

• The Flight of the Population from East Prussia
• p. 40

• The Flight of the Population from West Prussia and Pomerania
• p. 47

• The Flight of the Population from the Warthegau (Province of Poznan) and East Brandenburg
• p. 50

• The Flight of the Population from Silesia
• p. 51

• The Return of the German Population to Their Homes East of the Oder-Neisse Line
• p. 56

• Deportation of German Civilians as Forced Labor to the Soviet Union
• p. 58

• The Expulsion of the German Population from East of the Oder-Neisse Line
• p. 64

• The Treatment of German Civilians in the Former Reich Territories
• p. 64

• The Treatment of Volksdeutsche in Poland and in the Soviet Enclave of East Prussia
• p. 69

• The Expulsions
• p. 75

• A Summary of the Different Stages of the Expulsions
• p. 80

• The Polish Government's Justification for the Expulsion of the German Population
• p. 83

• The Destruction of the Polish Nation
• p. 84

• The Historical Justification for the Expulsion
• p. 86

• III
• The Expulsion of the Ethnic German Population from the Former Czechoslovakia
• p. 93

• The History of German Settlements in Czechoslovakia
• p. 95

• Evacuation and Flight of the Sudeten Germans from the War
• p. 101

• Slovakia
• p. 101

• Bohemia and Moravia
• p. 102

• The Prague Uprising
• p. 114

• The Condition of the German Population in Bohemia and Moravia at War's End
• p. 124

• The Internment of the Sudeten Germans in Labor Camps
• p. 131

• The History of the Theresienstadt (Terezin) Ghetto
• p. 137

• The Czech Government's Justification for the Expulsion of the Germans
• p. 142

• The Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans prior to the Potsdam Conference
• p. 146

• The Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans after the Potsdam Conference
• p. 162

• IV
• The Expulsion of the Ethnic German Population from Hungary
• p. 173

• Introduction
• p. 174

• The History of the German Settlements in Hungary
• p. 174

• Hungary's German Minority in World War II, Including Service in the Waffen-SS
• p. 179

• The Flight and Evacuation from the Soviet Army
• p. 185

• The Hungarian Government's Justification for the Expulsion of the German Community
• p. 189

• The Soviet Occupation of Hungary and Forced Labor in the Soviet Union
• p. 191

• The Expulsion of the Ethnic Germans
• p. 195

• V
• The Flight, Incarceration, and Expulsion of Ethnic Germans from the Former Republic of Yugoslavia
• p. 207

• Summary
• p. 207

• The History of the German Settlements in Yugoslavia
• p. 209

• The German Minority in World War II
• p. 212

• The Ethnic German Participation in the Waffen-SS Division "Prinz Eugen"
• p. 214

• The Evacuation and Flight of Ethnic Germans from Yugoslavia
• p. 219

• Deportation to the Soviet Union
• p. 219

• The Fate of the Ethnic German Minority in Tito's Partisan Government
• p. 224

• The Treatment of Children
• p. 231

• The Flight and Eviction of the Yugoslav German Minority
• p. 234

• The Closing of the Camps, Forced Labor, and Emigration to the German Federal Republic
• p. 238

• VI
• The Fate of the Ethnic German Minority in Romania
• p. 241

• The Historical Ethnic German Settlements in Romania
• p. 241

• The Transylvanian Saxons
• p. 241

• The Swabians of the Banat
• p. 243

• The Inter-War Years
• p. 244

• The German Minority in Romania in World War II
• p. 248

• The Collapse of the Romanian Government and Soviet Occupation
• p. 249

• The Evacuation of Ethnic German Civilians
• p. 255

• The Fate of the German Minority after the War
• p. 261

• The Deportation of Romanian Germans to the Soviet Union
• p. 261

• The Confiscation of German Farms
• p. 271

• The Forced Resettlement of Banat Germans
• p. 274

• Developments after 1949
• p. 279

• VII
• Conclusion: Integration and Reconciliation
• p. 283

• Integration of Refugees and Expellees into German Society
• p. 283

• Economic and Social Integration in West Germany
• p. 284

• Political Integration
• p. 286

• Integration in the Soviet Zone of Occupation
• p. 287

• Reconciliation with East European Nations
• p. 288

• Reconciliation with Poland
• p. 289

• Reconciliation with Czechoslovakia
• p. 292

• Reconciliation with Hungary
• p. 296

• Relations with Romania and the Former Yugoslavia
• p. 298

• Romania
• p. 299

• Yugoslavia
• p. 300

• Concluding Remarks
• p. 301

• Appendix
• p. 303

• Bibliography
• p. 317

• Index
• p. 325