(Bas Lubberhuizen, 2005, 272 pages)

Huge population shifts took place in the border area between Germany and Poland in the years immediately following the Second World War. At the Postdam Conference in the summer of 1945, the allies put into force their decision to transfer the eastern part of the German Reich beyond the rivers Oder and Neisse to Poland. The Germans living there fled, were driven out, or merged with arriving Poles and Ukrainians forced to leave lands further east. Around fifteen million people in the region moved home.