The Assimilation of German Expellees into the West German Polity and Society Since 1945 formatIsbn:Softcover 9789024716500 the local geometric structure of 9789401063968 the local geometric structure of a compact group may be extremely complicated the subject index for this volume is cumulative including the tricks in the previous vol umes The expulsions of German nationals from former Reich territories east of the Oder Neisse Rivers and of German minority communities from various Eastern European nations following the collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945 constitute one of the least appreciated consequences of the Second World War The state (Land) which received the greatest number of these largely destitute expellees in proportion to its indigenous population was Schleswig Holstein: in the years between 1945 and 1948 its population doubled