The Germans and the East / edited by Charles Ingrao and Franz A.J. Szabo.

Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Sept. 17-20, 2002, at the University of Alberta.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Before colonization : Christendom at the Slav frontier and Pagan resistance / Christian Lübke -- Medieval colonization in East Central Europe / Jan M. Piskorski -- Most unique crusader state : the Teutonic Order in the development of the political culture of Northeastern Europe during the Middle Ages / Paul W. Knoll -- Amicable enmity : some peculiarities in Teutonic-Balt relations in the chronicles of the Baltic Crusades / Raisa Mazeika -- Absolutism and reform in eighteenth-century Central and Eastern Europe / Michael G. Müller -- German writers, power and collapse : the emergence of Polenliteratur in eighteenth-century Germany / David Pickus -- German colonization in the Banat and Transylvania in the Eighteenth Century / Karl A. Roider and Robert Forrest -- Changing meanings of "German" in Habsburg Central Europe / Pieter M. Judson -- Controversies on German cultural orientation in the "Croatian national renewal" : German language and culture in Croatian everyday life, 1835-1848 / Drago Roksandić -- "Germans" in the Habsburg Empire : language, imperial ideology, national identity, and assimilation / Arnold Suppan -- German military occupation and culture on the Eastern Front in World War I / Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius -- Comrades, enemies, victims : the Prussian/German army and the Ostvölker / Dennis Showalter -- From "verloren gehen" to "verloren bleiben" : changing German discourses on Nation and Nationalism in Poznania / Elizabeth A. Drummond -- National state and territorial parish in interwar Poland / James Bjork -- Interwar Poland and the problem of Polish-speaking Germans / Richard Blanke -- Birth of a Sudeten German nobility, 1918-1938 / Eagle Glassheim -- Askaris in the "wild East" : the deployment of auxiliaries and the implementation of Nazi racial policy in Lublin district / Peter Black -- Blind eye and dirty hands : the Wehrmachtʹs crimes in the East, 1941-1945 / Geoffrey P. Megargee -- Nazi foreign policy towards Southeastern Europe, 1933-1945 / Béla Bodo -- Second World War and its aftermath : ethnic German communities in the East / John C. Swanson -- Austrian and Czech historical memory of World War II, national identity, and European integration / Günter Bischof and Martin David -- Austro-Czechoslovak relations and the expulsion of the Germans / Emilia Hrabovec -- West Germany and the lost German East : two narratives / William Glenn Gray -- "Germans and the East" : back to normality-- but what is normal? / Eva Hahn and Hans Henning Hahn.