Friday, January 3, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

8. The German Diaspora in East Central Europe: Assimilation, Dissimilation, and Expulsion

Palmer House, Private Dining Room 18

Joint session with the Conference Group for Central European History

Chair: Catherine Albrecht, University of Baltimore

Papers: The Social and Economic Roots of Ethnic Struggle in the German Diaspora
Balázs Szelényi, American Council of Learned Societies

German, Hungarian, or Swabian: Who Are the Hungarian-Germans?
John Swanson, Utica College, Syracuse University

The Czechoslovak Exile Government and Its Plans for the Postwar Future of the Sudeten Germans
Francis Raska, Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University

Comment: Ronald M. Smelser, University of Utah

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