The Germans and East

Contents
Introduction
I. The Middle Ages
	Before Colonization: Christendom at the Slav Frontier
	Medieval Colonization in East Central Europe
	The Most Unique Crusader State: The Teutonic Order in the Development of the Political Culture of Northeastern Europe during the Middle Ages
	An Amicable Enmity: Some Peculiarities in Teutonic-Balt Relations in the Chronicles of the Baltic Crusades
II. The Early Modern Period
	Absolutism and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Central and Eastern Europe
	German Writers, Power and Collapse: The Emergence of Polenliteratur in Eighteenth-Century Germany
	German Colonization in the Banat and Transylvania in the Eighteenth Century
III. The Long Nineteenth Century
	Changing Meanings of “German” in Habsburg Central Europe
	Controversies on German Cultural Orientation in the “Croatian National Renewal”: German Language and Culture in Croatian Everyday Life, 1835–1848
	“Germans” in the Habsburg Empire: Language, Imperial Ideology, National Identity, and Assimilation
IV. The Age of Total War
	German Military Occupation and Culture on the Eastern Front in World War I
	Comrades, Enemies, Vicims: The Prussian/German Army and the Ostvölker
	From “verloren gehen” to “verloren bleiben”: Changing German Discourses on Nation and Nationalism in Poznania
	The National State and the Territorial Parish in Interwar Poland
	Interwar Poland and the Problem of Polish-speaking Germans
	The Birth of a Sudeten German Nobility, 1918–1938
	Askaris in the “Wild East”: The Deployment of Auxiliaries and the Implementation of Nazi Racial Policy in Lublin District
	A Blind Eye and Dirty Hands: The Wehrmacht’s Crimes in the East, 1941–1945
	Nazi Foreign Policy towards Southeastern Europe, 1933–1945
	The Second World War and Its Aftermath: Ethnic German Communities in the East
V. The Era of European Integration
	Austrian and Czech Historical Memory of World War II, National Identity, and European Integration
	Austro-Czechoslovak Relations and the Expulsion of the Germans
	West Germany and the Lost German East: Two Narratives
Conclusion: The “Germans and the East”: Back to Normality—But What Is Normal?
Contributors
Index