Representations of Flight and Expulsion in East German Prose Works

Explodes the conventional wisdom that there was a taboo on the topic of flight and expulsion in East Germany. It is by now almost a cliché that the flight and expulsion of Germans from east-central Europe at the end of the Second World War was a taboo topic in the German Democratic Republic. According to this claim, the Socialist Unity Party (SED) suppressed reference to flight and expulsion so as not to upset its socialist neighbors. This book shows that such a view does not hold up to serious