The editors present a collection of 23 historical papers exploring relationships between "the Germans" (necessarily adopting different senses of the term for di

For many centuries Jews and Germans were economically and culturally of significant importance in East-Central and Eastern Europe. Since both groups had a very

For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of pow

An examination of the various different expressions of the distinctive German 'myth of the East' that has been such a marked feature of German culture over the

The award-winning history of 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: “a major achievement” (New Republic