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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...an easily accessible and very readable contribution Thomas Horber, Francia 32/3 ...superb... Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature