Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. Establishing the Pattern 1949-1955
1: From the Expulsions to the Rise of the Expellee Organizations
2: The Programmes and Strategies of the Expellee Organizations
3: The Responses and Policies of the Main Parties
4: Adenauer's Foreign Policy and the Expellees
Part II. the Pattern in Practice 1949-1966
5: Ostpolitik Options and Expellee Influence 1955-1959
6: Ostpolitik Options and Expellee Influence 1959-1966
Part III. The Collapse of the Pattern 1966-1969
7: The Grand Coalition as the Turning-Point 1966-1969
8: From the New Ostpolitik to Reunification 1969-1970
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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