Uprooted : how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions / Gregor Thum ; translated from the German by Tom Lampert and Allison Brown ; translations of Polish sources by W. Martin and Jasper Tilbury.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A note on names -- Prologue: A dual tragedy -- The destruction of Breslau -- Poland's shift to the west -- pt. 1. The postwar era : rupture and survival -- Takeover -- Moving people -- A loss of substance -- Reconstruction -- pt. 2. The politics of the past : the city's transformation -- The impermanence syndrome -- Propaganda as necessity -- Mythicizing history -- Cleansing memory -- The pillars of an imagined tradition -- Old town, new contexts -- pt. 3. Prospects -- Amputated memory and the turning point of 1989 -- Appendix 1: List of abbreviations -- Appendix 2: Translations of Polish institutions -- Appendix 3: List of Polish and German street names