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Duquesne University History Forum  16-18 November 2000
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Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe:

 

Announcement, June 2003:  

We are pleased to announce that the collection based on the conference papers from Pittsburgh has just been published by Social Science Monographs, Boulder, CO.  It will be distributed by Columbia University Press.  

The volume, which is over 800 pages long,  contains 47 studies and essays reflective of the themes discussed on these web pages and at the conference.  The full citation is as follows.

Steven Bela Vardy and T. Hunt Tooley, eds., Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe. Foreword by Otto von Habsburg.  Associate editor, Agnes Huszar Vardy.  Social Science Monographs, Boulder CO, 2003.  ISBN 0-88033-995-0.

The book is available at:

    Columbia University Press

    amazon.com

    and other book sources.

CONTENTS

Foreward    Otto von Habsburg

Preface    

Introduction: Ethnic Cleansing in History    Steven Béla Vardy and Hunt Tooley

From "Eastern Switzerland" to Ethnic Cleansing: Is the Dream Still Relevant?    Ambassador Géza Jeszenszky

Ethnic Cleansing    Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden

    1. The Rise of Twentieth-Century Ethnic Cleansing: Origins and Preconditions
    
Redrawing the Ethnic Map in North America: The Experience of France Britain and Canada, 1536-1946    N.F. Dreisziger

World War I and the Emergence of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe    T. Hunt Tooley

"Ethnic Cleansing," Emigration, and Identity: The Case of Habsburg Bosnia-Hercegovina    Peter Mentzel

"Neither Serbs, nor Turks, Neither Water nor Wine, but Odious Renegades": The Ethnic Cleansing of Slav Muslims and its Role in Serbian and Montenegrin Discourses since 1800    Cathie Carmichael

Bulgarian "Turks": Muslim Minority in a Christian Nation-State, 1878-1989    Dennis P. Hupchick

The Twentieth Century's First Genocide: International Law, Impunity, the Right to Reparations, and the Ethnic Cleansing Against the Armenians, 1915-16    Alfred de Zayas

Ethnic Cleansing in the Greek-Turkish Conflicts from the Balkan Wars through the Treaty of Lausanne: Identifying and Defining Ethnic Cleansing    Ben Lieberman

Consequences of Population Transfers: The 1923 Case of Greece and Turkey    Eleni Eleftheriou

Ethnic Heterogeneity, Cultural Homogenization, and State Policy in the Interwar Balkans    Victor Roudometof

    2. The Ethnic Cleansing of Germans During and After World War II    

Anglo-American Responsibility for the Expulsion of the Germans 1944-48    Alfred de Zayas

The London Czech Government and the Origins of the Expulsion of the Sudenten Germans    Christopher Kopper

Escaping History: The Expulsion of the Sudenten Germans as a Leitmotif in German-Czech Relations    Scott Brunstetter

Polish-speaking Germans and the Ethnic Cleansing of Germany East of Oder-Neisse    Richard Blanke

Ethnic Cleansing in Upper Silesia, 1944-1951    Tomasz Kamusella

Reshaping the Free City: Cleansed Memory in Danzig/Gdansk 1939-1952    Elizabeth Morrow Clark

Cleansed Memory: The New Polish Wroclaw/Breslau and the Expulsion of the Germans    Gregor Thum

Yugoslavia's First Ethnic Cleansing: The Expulsion of the Danubian Germans 1944-1946    John R. Schindler

The Expulsion of the Germans from Hungary after World War II    Janos Angi

The Deportation of Ethnic Germans from Romania to the Soviet Union, 1945-1949    Nicolae Harsanyi

    3. The Aftereffects of Ethnic Cleansing in the Wake of World War II    

The Isolationist as Interventionist: Senator William Langer on the Subject of Ethnic Cleansing, March 29, 1946    Charles M. Barber

A House Divided: The Catholic Church and the Tensions Between Refugees-Expellees and West Germans in the Postwar Era    Frank Buscher

The United States and the Refusal to Feed German Civilians after World War II    Richard Dominic Wiggers
The German Expellees and European Values    Emil Nagengast

Ethnic Cleansing and Collective Punishment: The Soviet Policy Towards Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees in the Carpathian Basin    Tamas Stark

Forgotten Victims of World War II: Hungarian Women in Soviet Forced Labor Camps    Agnes Huszar Vardy

Revolution and Ethnic Cleansing in Western Ukraine: The OUN-UPA Assault against Polish Settlements in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, 1943-1944    Alexander V. Prusin

The Deportation and Ethnic Cleansing of the Crimean Tatars    Brain Glyn Williams

Ethnic Cleansing in Slovakia: The Plight of the Hungarian Minority    Edward Chaszar

The Hungarian-Slovak Population Exchange and Forced Resettlement in 1947    Rubert Barta

The Fate of Hungarians in Yugoslavia: Genocide, Ethnocide, or Ethnic Cleansing?    Andrew Ludanyi

    4. Survival and Memory: Vertreibung  
  
A Survivor's Report    Karl Hausner

The Day I Will Never Forget    Hermine Hausner

Exceptional Bonds: Revenge and Reconciliation in Potulice Poland, 1945 and 1998    Martha Kent

Remarks by a Survivor    Erich A. Helfert

Recapturing the Spirit of Nuremberg: Published and Unpublished Sources on the Danube Swabians of Yugoslavia    Raymond Lohne

Ethnic Cleansing and the Carpathian-Germans of Slovakia    Andreas Roland Wesserle

    5. Ethnic Cleansing and its Broader Implications in the Last Third of the Twentieth Century  
  
Systematic Policies of Forced Assimilation Against Rumania's Hungarian Minority, 1965-1989    Laszlo Hamos

Ethnic Cleansing in the Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s: A Euphemism for Genocide?    Klejda Mulaj

Critique of the Concept of "Ethnic Cleansing": The Case of Yugoslavia    Robert H. Whealey

Recent Developments in the Law of Genocide and Implications for Kosovo    John Cerone

The Shifting Interpretation of the Term "Ethnic Cleansing" in Central and Eastern Europe    Janos Mazsu

The Evolving Definitions of IDPs and Links to Ethnic Cleansing in Europe    Gabriel S. Pellathy

Long-Term Consequences of Forced Population Transfers: Institutionalized Ethnic Cleansing as the Road to New (In-) Stability? A European Perspective    Stefan Wolff

Ethnic Cleansing 1945 and Today: Observations on Its Illegality and Implications    Alfred de Zayas

Documentary Appendix   

 
The Conference on Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe constituted Duquesne University's annual History Forum for the year 2000.  The conference was hosted by the Duquesne University Department of History and Co-Sponsored by the Institute for German- American Relations, with support from Austin College.  It was held on the campus of Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, Nov. 16-18, 2000 Topic and Thematic Background for Discussion • The Conference Program

• The Institute for German-American Relations
• The Duquesne University History Forum
•  The Organizers



For further information:
Hunt Tooley
Department of History
Austin College
Sherman, TX 75090
htooley@austincollege.edu


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