Introduction, by Franz A.J. Szabo and Charles Ingrao
I. The Middle Ages, Introduced by Klaus Zernack
Before Colonization: Christendom at the Slav Frontier and Pagan Resistance, by Christian Lübke
Medieval Colonization in East Central Europe, by Jan M. Piskorski
The Most Unique Crusader State: The Teutonic Order in the Development of the Political Culture of Northeastern Europe during the Middle Ages, by Paul W. Knoll
An Amicable Enmity: Some Peculiarities in Teutonic-Balt Relations in the Chronicles of the Baltic Crusades, by Rasa Mazeika
II. The Early Modern Period, Introduced by Charles Ingrao
Absolutism and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Central and Eastern Europe, by Michael G. Müller
German Writers, Power and Collapse: The Emergence of Polenliteratur in Eighteenth-Century Germany, by David Pickus
German Colonization in the Banat and Transylvania in the Eighteenth Century, by Karl A. Roider and Robert Forrest
III. The Long Nineteenth Century, Introduced by Lothar Höbelt
Changing Meanings of “German” in Habsburg Central Europe, by Pieter M. Judson
Controversies on German Cultural Orientation in the “Croatian National Renewal”: German Language and Culture in Croatian Everyday Life, 1835–1848, by Drago Roksandić
“Germans” in the Habsburg Empire: Language, Imperial Ideology, National Identity, and Assimilation, by Arnold Suppan
IV. The Age of Total War, Introduced by Ronald Smelser
Part 1: German Aims in World War I German Military Occupation and Culture on the
Eastern Front in World War I, by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
Comrades, Enemies, Vicims: The Prussian/German Army and the Ostvölker, by Dennis Showalter
Part 2: The Successor States and Their German Minorities From “verloren gehen” to “verloren bleiben”: Changing German Discourses on Nation and Nationalism in Poznania, by Elizabeth A. Drummond
The National State and the Territorial Parish in Interwar Poland, by James Bjork
Interwar Poland and the Problem of Polish-speaking Germans, by Richard Blanke
The Birth of a Sudeten German Nobility, 1918–1938, by Eagle Glassheim
Part 3: Nazi Germany and the War in the East Askaris in the “Wild East”: The Deployment of Auxiliaries and the Implementation of Nazi Racial Policy in Lublin District, by Peter Black
A Blind Eye and Dirty Hands: The Wehrmacht’s Crimes in the East, 1941–1945, by Geoffrey P. Megargee
Nazi Foreign Policy towards Southeastern Europe, 1933–1945, by Béla Bodo
The Second World War and Its Aftermath: Ethnic German Communities in the East, by John C. Swanson
V. The Era of European Integration, Introduced by Günter Bischof
Austrian and Czech Historical Memory of World War II, National Identity, and European Integration, by Günter Bischof and Martin David
Austro-Czechoslovak Relations and the Expulsion of the Germans, by Emilia Hrabovec
West Germany and the Lost German East: Two Narratives, by William Glenn Gray
Conclusion
The “Germans and the East”: Back to Normality—But What Is Normal?, by Eva Hahn and Hans Henning Hahn
Contributors
Index
