Abstract
“Vertreibungsliteratur,” that is, literature dealing with the flight and expulsion of Germans from the former eastern provinces and other settlement areas at the end of World War II, has long led a shadowy existence on the fringe of post-war German literature, and––with a few notable exceptions––has until recently been studiously ignored or arbitrarily dismissed by main-stream literary scholars.1 Without going into too much detail here, the reasons were that putting an emphasis on German suffering, or injustices committed upon Germans, could be seen as relativising the overwhelming German war guilt:
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