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'Service offers an extensively researched synthesis which brings to light significant archival materials on the population movements that remade a broad swathe of Central Europe. From the vantage point of two small and contrasting centres, Service helps his scholarly readership understand mechanisms that made ethnic cleansing a part of everyday life.' Andrew Demshuk, European History Quarterly 'Germans to Poles serves as a useful comparative study that relates the violent remaking of east central Europe along ethno-national lines to the diverse local-level consequences of this grand project.' Brendan Karch, German History 'Hugo Service stresses the larger chronological connections between German and Polish resettlement policies ... [He] knowledgably places Poland's state-driven policy of resettlement and expulsion - which began in mid-June 1945 and was carried out at high speed and with corresponding suffering until around 1947-48 - within the long-term national conflicts between Germany and Poland from the time [of] the Kaiser's Empire though to the post-WWII years ... With [his] important stud[y] on resettlement policy and connected suffering, Service ha[s] rightly drawn attention to the fact that only by accepting this chronology is the contextualisation [of these events] and, ultimately, a pluralisation of memory possible.' Translated from Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft

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Hugo Service is Departmental Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Oxford.

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