Bücher der Reihe Studies in History, Memory and Politics

This book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two small communities in Poland and Ukraine, depopulated as result of ethnic cleansing and deportation. Based on more than 150 personal interviews, it describes a common fate of many post-war European localities, destroyed and rebuilt in a completely new shape.

Based on extensive archival research and the newest jurisprudence in international law, this book inquires which of the events in Germany's colonies fulfil the criteria of genocide under current international law and whether there was a link between these events and the policies of the Third Reich in Central and Eastern Europe during World War II.