Explores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.

Winson Chu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has received awards and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Friends of the German Historical Institute in Washington DC, and the American Council on Germany.

Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Note on translations, place names, and concepts; Abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction; 1. Phantom Germans: Weimar revisionism and Poland (1918-33); 2. Residual citizens: German minority politics in Western Poland (1918-33); 3. On the margins of the minority: Germans in ¿ód¿ (1900-33); 4. Negotiating Volksgemeinschaft: national socialism and regionalization (1933-7); 5. Revenge of the periphery: German empowerment in central Poland (1933-9); 6. Lodzers into Germans? (1939-2000); Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.