Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note on Names xi
5. Prologue: A dual Tragedy xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART ONE. The Postwar Era: Rupture and Survival
8. Chapter One. Takeover 17
9. Chapter Two. Moving People 53
10. Chapter Three. A Loss of Substance 105
11. Chapter Four. Reconstruction 140
12. PART TWO. The Politics of the Past: The City’s Transformation
13. Chapter Five. The Impermanence Syndrome 171
14. Chapter Six. Propaganda as Necessity 190
15. Chapter Seven. Mythicizing History 217
16. Chapter Eight. Cleansing Memory 244
17. Chapter Nine. The Pillars of an Imagined Tradition 288
18. Chapter Ten. Old Town, New Contexts 323
19. PART THREE. Prospects
20. Chapter Eleven. Amputated Memory and the Turning Point of 1989 381
21. Appendix 1. List of Abbreviations 409
22. Appendix 2. Translations of Polish Institutions 411
23. Appendix 3. List of Polish and German Street Names 412
24. Notes 417
25. Sources and Literature 459
26. Map of Poland after the Westward Shift of 1945 494
27. Simplified Map of Wrocław Today 495
28. Index 497