1 Introduction
Journal: Böhlau Verlag eBooks
Year: 2024

Oh, the leaky boundaries of man-made states!How many clouds float past them with impunity; how much desert sand shifts from one land to another; how many mountain pebbles tumble onto foreign soil in provocative hops!Wisława Szymborska 1The history of twentieth-century Europe is littered with major displacements of borders.…These new boundaries include … the Oder-Neisse line, the work of the planning departments of several foreign ministries and the participants of major international conferences