TY - BOOK ID - 80835340 TI - Orphans of Versailles PY - 2015 SN - 9780813161396 0813161398 0813130417 PB - Lexington The University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Germans KW - Ethnology KW - History. KW - Western and Northern Territories (Poland) KW - Regained Territories (Poland) KW - Ziemie Odzyskane (Poland) KW - Ziemie Zachodnie i Północne (Poland) KW - Oder-Neisse Line (Germany and Poland) KW - Ethnic relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80835340 AB - The lands Germany ceded to Poland after World War I included more than one million ethnic Germans for whom the change meant a sharp reversal of roles. The Polish government now confronted a German minority in a region where power relationships had been the other way around for more than a century. Orphans of Versailles examines the complex psychological and political situation of Germans consigned to Poland, their treatment by the Polish government and society, their diverse strategies for survival, their place in international relations, and the impact of National Socialism.Not a one-sided st ER -