The end of World War II led to one of the most significant forced population transfers in history: the expulsion of over 12 million ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1950 and the subsequent emigration of another four million in the second half of the twentieth century.

Introduction: From Colonists to Emigrants: Explaining the 'Return-Migration' of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe Stefan Wolff PART I: REFUGEES, EXPELLEES AND AUSSIEDLER IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY: HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND LEGAL DIMINESIONS OF THE INTEGRATION PROCESS Chapter 1. Integrating Ethnic Germans in West Germany: The Early Postwar Period Daniel Levy Chapter 2. The Struggle of Past and Present in Individual Identities: The Case of German Refugees and Expellees from the East Rainer Schulze Chapter 3. Expellee Policy in the Soviet-occupied Zone and the GDR: 1945–1953 Philipp Ther Chapter 4. The Integration of Ethnic Germans from the Soviet Union Andreas Heinrich Chapter 5. Jus Sanguinis or Jus Mimesis? Rethinking 'Ethnic German' Repatriation Stefan Senders Chapter 6. The Decline of Privilege: The Legal Background to the Migration of Ethnic Germans Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels PART II: THE TRANSITION FROM GERMAN MINORITY CULTURE TO THE NATIONAL CULTURE OF GERMANY: ART AS A MEDIUM TO ADDRESS AND EXPRESS THE CHALLENGES OF MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION Chapter 7. 'From the periphery to the centre and back again': An Introduction to the Life and Works of Richard Wagner David Rock Chapter 8. '... a form of literature which was intentionally political' Richard Wagner in conversation with David Rock and Stefan Wolff Chapter 9. Millennium Richard Wagner Chapter 10. 'Alone in a crowd': The Figure of the 'Aussiedler' in the Work of Richard Wagner Graham Jackman Chapter 11. A Romanian German in Germany: The Challenge of Ethnic and Ideological Identity in Herta Müller's Literary Work John J. White Chapter 12. Günter Grass: 'The man who migrated across history Julian Preece Chapter 13. From 'Sudetendeutsche' to 'Adlergebirgler': Gudrun Pausewang's Rosinkawiese Trilogy Kati Tonkin Chapter 14. '... for an artist, home will be wherever he can freely practise his art' Walter Grill in conversation with David Rock Conclusion: Coming Home to Germany? Ethnic German Migrants in the Federal Republic after 1945 Stefan Wolff