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Abstract:
Between 1944–1950, almost eight million expellees arrived in West Germany. This paper introduces a rich county-level database on the expellees’ socio-economic situation in post- war Germany. The database contains regionally disaggregated information on the number, origin, age, gender, religious denomination and labour force status of expellees. It also records corresponding information on the West German population as a whole, on the pre-war economic and religious structure of host and origin regions, and on war destructions in West Germany. The paper illustrates the scope of the database by studying the determinants of county-level differences in expellee inflows.
Citation
Braun, Sebastian T., and Richard Franke (2021). “A County-Level Database on Expellees in West Germany, 1939–1961.” Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 108(4): 522-540. https://doi.org/10.25162/vswg-2021-0017.
@article{Braun_Franke_2021,
author = {Braun, Sebastian Till and Franke, Richard},
doi = {10.25162/vswg-2021-0017},
journal = {Vierteljahrschrift f\"ur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte},
number = {4},
pages = {522--540},
title = {A County-Level Database on Expellees in {W}est {G}ermany, 1939–1961},
volume = {108},
year = {2021}}