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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note on Names | |
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| Prologue: A Dual Tragedy | |
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| The Destruction of Breslau | |
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| Poland's Shift to the West | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Postwar Era: Rupture and Survival | |
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| Takeover | |
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| A Fait Accompli | |
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| The Mission of the Government Plenipotentiaries | |
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| �Noah's Ark� in Krakow | |
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| Poles and Russians-A Secret Hostility | |
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| Russians and Germans-An Unsettling Friendship | |
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| The Patriotic Reorganization of the Church | |
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| Moving People | |
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| The Evacuation of the Germans | |
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| The Settlement of the Poles | |
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| The Resettlement Apparatus and the Migration of Peoples | |
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| Searching for Urban Settlers | |
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| The Ruralization of the City | |
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| A Loss of Substance | |
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| Vandalism and the Great Fires | |
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| Soviet Dismantling | |
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| The �Szabrownicy� and the BlackMarket | |
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| Polish Dismantling | |
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| The Decay of Residential Housing | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| Wroclaw between Provincial City and Bustling Metropolis | |
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| Momentum and Stagnation | |
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| Raising the Old Town from Its Ashes | |
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| 1956 and a Changing Building Policy | |
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| The Politics of The Past: The City's Transformation | |
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| The Impermanence Syndrome | |
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| An Alien Place | |
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| A Motley Society | |
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| The Capital of Poland's �Wild West� | |
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| Sitting on Packed Suitcases | |
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| Propaganda as Necessity | |
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| Phe Tradition of Polish Western Thought (Mysl Zachodnia) | |
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| Nationalism and Communism in the People's Republic | |
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| Ttie Advocates of Western Thought | |
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| Tlie Phases of Propaganda | |
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| Language Conventions | |
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| The Success of Propaganda and the Requirements of the Time | |
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| Mythicizing History | |
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| The hand of the Piasts | |
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| Wroclaw's Eternal Ties to Poland | |
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| Prussia's Conquest and Wroclaw's Decline | |
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| A Bastion of Polishness | |
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| Prom Friedrich II to Hitler: German Continuities | |
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| The Pioneers of 1945 | |
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| Migrations | |
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| Cleansing Memory | |
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| Polonization: Places, Streets, and People | |
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| De-Germanization: Inscriptions, Monuments, Cemeteries | |
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| The Pillars of an Imagined Tradition | |
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| A New Coat of Arms | |
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| The Power of Old Monuments and the Placelessness of New Ones | |
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| The Noisy Silence of Local Historiography | |
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| The Ritual of Commemoration | |
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| Old Town, New Contexts | |
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| Warsaw as a Model | |
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| The Sacralization of the Gothic | |
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| The Toleration of the Baroque | |
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| The Anti-Prussian Reflex | |
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| Historic Buildings and Forced Migration | |
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| Prospects | |
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| Amputated Memory and the | |
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| Turning Point of 1989 | |
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| The City without a Memory | |
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| The Revolution in German-Polish Relations | |
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| The Fall of Communism and the Discovery of the Bourgeois City | |
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| Wroclaw's Search for a New Local Identity | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Translations of Polish Institutions | |
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| List of Polish and German Street Names | |
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| Notes | |
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| Sources and Literature | |
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| Map of Poland after the Westward Shift of 1945 | |
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| Simplified Map of Wroclaw Today | |
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| Index | |